Strong Couples Project: Disseminating Evidence-based Relationship Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Status: Not yet enrolling

Conditions: Relationships, Marital; Relational Problems

Treatments: Behavioral: ePREP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05591261

21550

Details and patient eligibility

About

The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples via the Cooperative Extension system.

Full description

The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention (ePREP) for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. 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 nation in a manner that allows for scalable, sustainable program delivery.

Enrollment: 500 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 120 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 sever 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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500 participants in 1 patient group

ePREP condition

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