NCT03045159

Strong Families Strong Forces: Supporting Active Duty Families With Very Young Children

Supporting Military Families With Young Children Throughout the Deployment Lifecycle

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 300 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Boston University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the efficacy of the Strong Families Strong Forces Parenting Program compared to a parental self-care (Strong Parents) condition in a sample of 150 Active Duty Families with children ages birth to 5 years.

Detailed description

The overall aim of this research is to adapt and evaluate the efficacy of a parenting program compared to a parental self-care program for Active Duty families. A sample of 150 Active Duty families with young children who have a parent scheduled to deploy in the next six months will be recruited to participate. Families will be assigned either to receive the Strong Families Strong Forces Parenting Program, designed to reduce the impact of deployment separation on parenting stress and co-parenting, or to the Strong Parents Self-Care program, designed to support parents to focus on the importance of self-care throughout the deployment cycle. Investigators will compare the two groups on parenting stress, quality of parent-child relationships, parenting/co-parenting, and family and child well-being.

Conditions

• Deployment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strong Families Strong Forces	Parenting program
BEHAVIORAL	Strong Parents	self-care program

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-03-01
• Completion: 2019-03-01
• First posted: 2017-02-07
• Last updated: 2017-02-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States