Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming Study

The Pennsylvania State University (PENNSTATE)

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: Parenting; Child Wellbeing; Child Maltreatment

Treatments: Behavioral: Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming

Study type: Interventional

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

Identifiers

NCT06823518

STUDY00026099

FA701425C0004 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Thrive Initiative's parent-education program delivery methods by comparing hybrid (i.e., a combination of online and group components) program delivery to online-only program delivery. The Thrive Initiative consists of four, universal parent-education programs that correpsond to specific child developmental periods. These programs inlcude: Take Root for parents/caregivers of 0-3-year-old children; Sprout for parents/caregivers of 3-5-year-old children; Grow for parents/caregivres of 5-10-year-old children; and Branch Out for parents/caregivers of 10-18-year-old children. The effectiveness of delivery method will be examined for each program. Eligible participants for this study will be United States Air Force service members or dependents who are caregivers of a child 0-18 years old. The study will involve randomization to condition meaning that participants will be assigned to the online-only or hybrid program delivery condition by chance.

Enrollment: 480 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• United States Air Force service member or dependent
• Parent/caregiver of a child 0-18 years old
• 18 years of age or older
• Willing to participate in the research study
• Has access to technology that will enable them to receive and respond to various technological aspects of the Thrive Initiative programs and research study
• Able to speak and understand English proficiently
• Able to understand and give consent

Exclusion criteria

• Not an United States Air Force service member or dependent
• Not a parent/caregiver of a child 0-18 years old
• 17 years of age or younger
• Unwilling to participate in the research study
• Does not have access to technology that will enable them to receive and respond to various technological aspects of the Thrive Initiative programs and research study
• Unable to speak and understand English proficiently
• Unable to understand and give consent

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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480 participants in 2 patient groups

Online-Only Thrive Inititaive Parent-Education Programming Condition

Experimental group

Description:

This arm involves the online-only versions of the Thrive Initiative parent-education programs.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming

Hybrid Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming Condition

Experimental group

Description:

This arm involves the hybrid version of the Thrive Initiative parent-education programs. The hybrid version includes the online version and weekly group meetings that can occur in-person or virtually.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Thrive Initiative Parent-Education Programming