NCT06161597

Family Check-Up Online

Family Check-Up Online for Middle School Parents

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,000 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Arizona State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to test the benefits of the Family Check-Up Online Program for parents of middle school students in Arizona. Participants will complete an online pre-survey, gain access to the online parenting program Family Check-Up, and have the option to meet with a coach to discuss the program. The participants will also complete a post-survey 3 months after enrollment.

Detailed description

The lingering impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted families adversely in multiple ways, including economic stressors, mental health-related functioning, and social/familial functioning. Given the scale of the pandemic's impact on families with school-aged children, the implementation of effective family-focused programs that target core mechanisms of change with a broad range of benefits for parents and youth across diverse populations, and that can be brought to scale rapidly and with fidelity, represents critical public health goals. Toward this end, this project is designed to further examine the efficacy of a web-based version of the universal Family Check-Up prevention program, which is an empirically-supported, parent-focused program designed to promote resilience and improve family functioning among parents of middle school-aged youth (grades 6-8th). A randomized control trial conducted through the University of Oregon found that parents who completed the Family Check-up Online program (FCO) either with or without supplemental support coaching exhibited significant increases in confidence and effortful control related to implementing skills and strategies that promote positive emotional and behavioral health among teens. This suggests that parents who complete the program feel more empowered to help guide their child's positive decision making and more effectively manage family challenges. This project will examine whether the FCO program produces improvements in positive parenting practices, reductions in parental emotional distress, and reductions in youth emotional/behavioral problems when delivered as a universal prevention program targeting parents of 6-8th grade students attending Title 1 public schools (\>50% students eligible for free/reduced lunch). The investigators will also examine whether the structured parent coaching support component of the program (i.e., Guidance Coaching) helps to improve the program's effectiveness relative to a parent-initiated informational support condition.

Conditions

• Families of Middle School Students at Title 1 Schools

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Check-Up Online	Families will be provided with access to the FCO program, available in English or Spanish. Parents complete a tutorial and five different modules focused on distinct parenting skills. Each module starts with a survey and feedback to help identify relative strengths and challenges with the targeted parenting skills. Parents are then guided through various online activities including videos that model right and wrong ways to handle comm on situations and explanations of parental self-management and problem-solving strategies. Parents are complete activities to practice the parenting skills taught. Parents will have access to the online program for 8 and they are encouraged to practice the program strategies during this time period. At the end of the 8 weeks, parent re-complete the brief questions that they filled out at the beginning of each module and then receive feedback indicating which of the parent's domain scores have improved since they completed each module.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-10-25
• Primary completion: 2026-05-01
• Completion: 2026-05-01
• First posted: 2023-12-08
• Last updated: 2025-04-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States