Empowering Families Project

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Relationship, Marital; Couples; Relational Problems

Treatments: Behavioral: Career Coaching; Behavioral: Family Wellness; Behavioral: Financial Planning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT05359185

90ZB0025

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 666 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• couples involved in a romantic relationship

Exclusion criteria

• current domestic violence or child maltreatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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666 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment-only

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the this group will receive core Relationship Education programming, which consists of six weekly 2.5-hour Family Wellness Workshops.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family Wellness

Treatment-Plus

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive an enhanced model that includes the core RE programming, and adds economic-focused services which include two 2.5-hour workshops (one on financial planning and one on career coaching), as well as individual financial planning and career coaching services ongoing for up to one year.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Financial Planning

Behavioral: Family Wellness

Behavioral: Career Coaching