NCT04441307

Promoting Co-Parenting and Reducing Hazardous Drinking in New Families

Strong Foundations: Intervening to Promote Co-Parenting and Reduce Father Hazardous Drinking in Expectant Parents

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 368 (actual)
• Sponsor: Penn State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study aims to understand if a parenting program that helps couples learn to parent as a team and maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as maintaining safer levels of alcohol use, promotes parent and child health and well-being. Programs will be delivered prenatally and postnatally and will include both group classes and individualized sessions. A comprehensive assessment is administered during pregnancy and then at 6 and 12 months of child age. It is hypothesized that targeting intervention during the naturally motivating transition to parenthood may not only provide opportunities for long lasting behavioral change for parents, but also initiate a cascade of protective processes that ultimately reduce risk for negative emotional and behavioral outcomes for children.

Conditions

• Parenting
• Parent-Child Relations
• Drinking, Alcohol
• Adjustment

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Foundations	Healthy Foundations combines elements of a community-based parent education program with additional information about infant and child development, good parenting practices, parent health behavior, and couple support.
BEHAVIORAL	Family Foundations	A modified version of Family Foundations, an evidence-based preventive intervention for couples during the transition to parenthood, will be implemented to address several aspects of parent and family adjustment, including parent health behavior, particularly alcohol use, and couple relationship dynamics, to promote a healthy parenting environment.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-01-25
• Primary completion: 2026-01-19
• Completion: 2026-07-31
• First posted: 2020-06-22
• Last updated: 2026-02-17

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States