Enhancing Father's Ability to Support Their Preschool Child

Queens College, The City University of New York

Status: Terminated

Conditions: Prevention; Parenting; Fathers; Child Maltreatment; High-risk

Treatments: Behavioral: Fathers Supporting Success in preschoolers

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01395238

1U01CE001653

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study focuses on the development of the Fathers Supporting Success in Preschoolers (FSSP) Program, which combines evidence-based parenting interventions with Dialogic Reading to engage fathers in and improve parenting and child behavior.

Enrollment: 125 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male Guardian
• Child enrolled in partnering Head Start site

Exclusion criteria

• Mental Health issues that prohibit involvement in group-based prevention study (e.g., psychosis)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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125 participants in 2 patient groups

Wait-List Group

No Intervention group

Parenting Group

Experimental group

Description:

Experimental Condition. Group-based, 8 weekly sessions/2 hours per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Fathers Supporting Success in preschoolers