Illinois United ePREP Program Evaluation

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Completed

Conditions: Relationship, Marital; Relational Problems

Treatments: Behavioral: ePREP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04378309

20837

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Full description

The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. Within the United States, one-third of married couples are distressed and almost half of first marriages end in divorce/separation. Relationship distress is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including worsened mental and physical health problems in partners as well as internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Newly developed online intervention programs for distressed couples have shown to be efficacious, but their overall reach to the general population remains limited. The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Enrollment: 338 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Resident of Illinois
• Married, engaged, or living with their partner for at least 6 months
• Both partners willing to participate in online relationship-focused programming

Exclusion criteria

• One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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338 participants in 1 patient group

ePrep

Experimental group

Description:

The ePREP program is the online version of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program. It consists of 6 self-directed online sessions and accompanying homework and brief coach calls.

Treatment:

Behavioral: ePREP