Comparing a Fatherhood Focused Individual Intervention to Batterer Intervention to Reduce IPV and Child Maltreatment

NCT04165291 | Completed Results DMC

• 2 other identifiers: 20000267891R21HD099318-01A1
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This randomized trial will test a newly developed intervention aimed at fathers who have a history of family violence compared to a standard batterer intervention program.

Conditions

Intimate Partner Violence

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (3)

• Completion Rate

  To test the hypothesis that fathers randomized to F4C will have higher completion rates than those in the individual BIP treatment, chi-square analysis will be used to examine between group differences in treatment completion.

  18 weeks

• Working Alliance Inventory Sum Score

  To test the hypothesis that fathers randomized to F4C will report greater overall working alliance, analysis of variance will be used to test between group difference in overall working alliance between F4C and BIP at week 8 of intervention (approximately mid-point). The Working Alliance Inventory (WAI-therapist version) will be used to measure working alliance among clinicians and clients. The WAI for therapists measures the strength of the working alliance with the client with 36 items utilizing a 5-point Likert scale. The minimum score is 0, the maximum score is 180. Higher sum score indicates a stronger working alliance.

  8 weeks

• Client Satisfaction Sum Score

  To test the hypothesis that fathers randomized to F4C will report greater overall satisfaction, analysis of variance will be used to test between group difference in overall client satisfaction between F4C and BIP. Satisfaction scores range from 2 to 8 with 8 indicating greater overall satisfaction with the services received.

  18 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Reflective Functioning

  Baseline and 18 weeks

• Emotional Regulation

  Baseline and 18 weeks

• Intimate Partner Violence

  18 weeks

• Child Maltreatment

  18 weeks

Study Arms (2)

F4C

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants randomized to the Fathers for Change (F4C) program.

Behavioral: F4C

BIP

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants randomized to the Batterer Intervention Program (BIP).

Behavioral: BIP

Interventions

F4C BEHAVIORAL

Fathers for Change (F4C) focuses on: 1) the fathering role to facilitate engagement, 2) RF to understand self, partner and children and emotion regulation skills to reduce IPV and child maltreatment. F4C focuses on understanding of emotional experiences, how they impact thinking and behaviors related to partners, co-parents and children. F4C clients will meet individually with their F4C therapist for 50 minutes per week over 16 weeks.

F4C

BIP BEHAVIORAL

The Batterer Intervention Program (BIP) is a psychoeducational intervention that will be delivered in 50- minute individual weekly sessions over 16 weeks. The intervention focuses on the impact of violence on victims, power and control tactics, and societal influences supporting men's violence toward women. The intervention includes didactics and experiential exercises including role plays to teach anger management skills.

BIP

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: male
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• A reported an incident of IPV (pushing, slapping, kicking) within the last 12 months prior to screening (based on court/police records, partner or self- report);
• have at least one biological child aged 6 months to 7 years with whom they have contact in person or by phone/facetime etc. at least monthly;
• are able to complete assessments in English;
• agree to have their female coparents (mother of the youngest child) contacted as collateral informants and for consent for participation of their shared child.

You may not qualify if:

• Men who have an active full/no contact protective order pertaining to their child since this will preclude participation in the father-child play assessment (many men will have full no-contact orders with their partners, but it is more common for men to still be allowed at least supervised contact with their children even with a full/no contact order with their partner);
• physiological addiction to a substance that requires detoxification. Fathers will be evaluated using the Addiction Severity Index and urine toxicology screens. If fathers report difficulties with physiological withdrawal from substances (e.g. delirium tremens, shaking, nausea) they will be referred for detox services. They can be re-evaluated following a detox program with documentation from the detox center of successful completion and clean urine screen.;
• anyone with a cognitive impairment that will not allow for understanding of the study interventions (a mini mental state score \<25);
• anyone with a current untreated psychotic disorder;
• anyone currently suicidal or homicidal based on screening using the BSI.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yale University: lead
• Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Carla Stover

Hamden, Connecticut, 06514, United States

Location

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Carla Stover
• Organization: Yale University Child Study Center

carla.stover@yale.edu

12037853486

Study Officials

• Carla Stover, PhD

  Associate Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: No
• Restrictive Agreement: No

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 14, 2019
• First Posted: November 15, 2019
• Study Start: September 1, 2020
• Primary Completion: July 30, 2023
• Study Completion: August 30, 2023
• Last Updated: April 4, 2024
• Results First Posted: April 4, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)