Couple Interaction and Health Behaviors
Targeting Couple Coercion to Impact Health Behaviors and Regimen Adherence
2 other identifiers
interventional
142
1 country
1
Brief Summary
The investigators are interested in typical couple interactions and health behaviors. In particular, the investigators are interested in different ways that each partner in a coupled relationship reacts to and understand each other's behavior, and in their health behaviors.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for not_applicable
Started May 2017
Typical duration for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
May 1, 2017
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
May 19, 2017
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
May 22, 2017
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
June 30, 2020
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
June 30, 2020
CompletedNovember 13, 2020
November 1, 2020
3.2 years
May 19, 2017
November 11, 2020
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (3)
Problem-Solving Task
Couples will complete a video-recorded problem-solving task, where they discuss some of the things that they would like each other to do, do different, or change.
20 minutes per visit
Health Behaviors
Health Behaviors
10 minutes per visit
Video-Mediated Emotion Recall
The video-mediated recall procedure (Gottman \& Levenson, 1985; Lorber, 2007) is a procedure by which parents and/or a member of a couple view a videotape of their interaction with their partner or child. While watching the video, they use a dial to rate their experienced emotion and/or cognitions moment-by-moment during the interaction task. Partners assigned to the interpretation bias and evaluative conditioning interventions will be given this task.
20 Minutes per visit
Secondary Outcomes (1)
Psychophysiological Measures
1.5-3 hours per visit
Study Arms (4)
Cognitive Intervention
ACTIVE COMPARATORThe cognitive intervention has partners come up with reasons why their partners do things they don't like, until they come up with benign attributions for those behaviors.
Behavioral Intervention
ACTIVE COMPARATORThe behavioral intervention has partners develop an if-then plan for dealing with conflict and negativity, using strategies to downregulate their own negative emotions.
Interpretation Bias
ACTIVE COMPARATORThe Interpretation Bias intervention has partners look at "morphed" facial expressions and determine whether the face is happy or angry. Positive feedback is given for rating the faces as happy and negative feedback is given for rating the faces as angry.
Evaluative Conditioning
ACTIVE COMPARATORThe Evaluative Conditioning intervention presents partners with pictures of ambiguous adult faces (conditioned stimuli) and pairs them with positive word descriptors (unconditioned stimuli; e.g., generous; loving).
Interventions
The cognitive intervention has partners come up with reasons why their partners do things they don't like, until they come up with benign attributions for those behaviors.
The behavioral intervention has partners develop an if-then plan for dealing with conflict and negativity, using strategies to downregulate their own negative emotions.
The Interpretation Bias intervention has partners look at "morphed" facial expressions and determine whether the face is happy or angry. Positive feedback is given for rating the faces as happy and negative feedback is given for rating the faces as angry.
The Evaluative Conditioning intervention presents partners with pictures of ambiguous adult faces (conditioned stimuli) and pairs them with positive word descriptors (unconditioned stimuli; e.g., generous; loving).
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Both partners must be 18 years of age or older
- At least one of the partners in the couple dyad carries a Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) diagnosis or is at risk for T2D.
- The couple must qualify on relationship characteristics
- The couple must be married or have lived together for at least 6 months
You may not qualify if:
- If individuals do not meet the above criteria, they will be excluded from the study.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
New York University School of Medicine
New York, New York, 10016, United States
Related Publications (1)
Smith Slep AM, Heyman RE, Mitnick DA, Lorber MF, Rhoades KA, Daly KA, Nichols SR, Eddy JM. Do Brief Lab-Based Interventions Decrease Coercive Conflict Within Couples and Parent-Child Dyads? Behav Ther. 2023 Jul;54(4):666-681. doi: 10.1016/j.beth.2023.01.006. Epub 2023 Feb 2.
PMID: 37330256DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Interventions
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Richard Heyman
NYU Langone Health
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- BASIC SCIENCE
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
May 19, 2017
First Posted
May 22, 2017
Study Start
May 1, 2017
Primary Completion
June 30, 2020
Study Completion
June 30, 2020
Last Updated
November 13, 2020
Record last verified: 2020-11