NCT05359185

Empowering Families Project

Empowering Families Project: An RCT of the Effects of Relationship Education With and Without Ancillary Economic Services on Family Outcomes

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 666 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Texas at Austin · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This RCT will test the marginal benefit of adding economic-focused services to traditional relationship education (RE) interventions. 344 couples will be randomly assigned to the RE only or RE plus economic-services condition. All couples will be assessed at baseline, 6-weeks, 6-months, and 12-months. This project will examine whether couples in the RE plus condition have better relationship and economic outcomes than couples in the RE only condition.

Conditions

• Couples
• Relationship, Marital
• Relational Problems

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Wellness	https://familywellness.com/
BEHAVIORAL	Career Coaching	Individualized career coaching and employment services.
BEHAVIORAL	Financial Planning	Individualized financial planning services.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2025-09-29
• Completion: 2025-09-29
• First posted: 2022-05-03
• Last updated: 2026-02-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States