NCT02973906

Comparing Web, Group, and Telehealth Formats of a Military Parenting Program

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 244 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Minnesota · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 100 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overarching goal of this study is to advance research on family-based prevention of negative child outcomes for reintegrating Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom personnel by evaluating different formats of a parenting program, After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT). The ADAPT program is based upon the Parent Management Training-Oregon Model/PMTO, but adapted for military deployed families. The PI will examine which of three delivery formats of ADAPT is most effective at reducing youth risk behaviors associated with negative childhood outcomes by improving parenting, child, and parent adjustment. There is a clear intent to benefit all subjects in this study (except surveyed teachers), including children.

Detailed description

The overarching goal of this study is to advance research on family-based prevention of negative child outcomes for reintegrating Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom personnel by evaluating different formats of a parenting program, After Deployment, Adaptive Parenting Tools (ADAPT). The ADAPT program is based upon the Parent Management Training-Oregon Model/PMTO, but adapted for military deployed families. The investigators will examine which of three delivery formats of ADAPT is most effective at reducing youth risk behaviors associated with negative childhood outcomes by improving parenting, child, and parent adjustment. There is a clear intent to benefit all subjects in this study (except surveyed teachers), including children. Combat deployment and related challenges are family stressors, associated with more negative parent-child interactions, ineffective and coercive parenting practices and lower levels of parenting satisfaction. Disrupted parenting practices are well-known predictors of risk for child adjustment difficulties that are precursors to youth substance use, including behavior problems, school failure, deviant peer association, and depression . These child adjustment problems can contribute to continuing parental stress, increasing parental distress, and further disrupting parenting.

Conditions

• Parenting

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	ADAPT Self Directed web	In the self-directed web-only ADAPT condition, participants have access to the full ADAPT website (10 modules, online discussion forum
OTHER	ADAPT individualized web-facilitated	This condition comprises access to the full ADAPT web program as described above, with augmentation of individual facilitator web support (i.e. the facilitator connects via Google Hangout). Facilitators meet with families at a mutually convenient time weekly (10-14 weeks, approximately 3 sessions per month).
OTHER	Group-based ADAPT	Groups will meet weekly for 120 minutes, at a time convenient to participants (usually early evening). Groups cover core ADAPT/PMTO topics:

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-06-01
• Primary completion: 2020-05-30
• Completion: 2020-08-30
• First posted: 2016-11-28
• Last updated: 2026-03-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States