Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH)

NCT05299138 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: 20220208
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 900
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase successful marriage rates. Data from the tri-county region comprised of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties demonstrates the presence of a number of risk factors affecting family stability, including high rates of single-parent households, births to unwed mothers, and high median rent costs compared to poverty rates and income. By providing families with relationship enhancement, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency services, this should help to optimize each family member's quality of life and improve child well-being.

Conditions

Intervention; Wait List Control

Keywords

Healthy relationships, economic self-sufficiency

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Family Environment Survey (FES)

  The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.

  22 weeks after baseline

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)

  22 weeks after baseline

Other Outcomes (1)

• Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS)

  22 weeks after baseline

Study Arms (2)

Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed.

Behavioral: Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention

Wait list control

NO INTERVENTION

The Control group will be placed on a wait-list and offered services as soon as they complete the study's final 22-week follow-up measures. Control participants will not be assigned a Case Manager and will not receive any comparable services from our agency until they complete their 22-week measures.

Interventions

Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention BEHAVIORAL

The Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class that is convenient for their schedule. Intervention participants will attend classes weekly and meet with their Case Manager weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, as needed. Study measures will be gathered from intervention participants at baseline, 10 weeks after baseline, and then 22 weeks after baseline. The following tools will be utilized at baseline and follow-up assessment: (1) REACH program eligibility screening (only conducted at baseline), (2) Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) system, (3) Family Environment Scale (FES), (4) Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and (5) Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS).

Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• adults age 18 or older
• interested in education about strengthening their current marriage or committed relationship
• reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida

You may not qualify if:

• under age 18
• do not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.: lead

Study Sites (1)

Jewish Family and Children Service

Sarasota, Florida, 34237, United States

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Marriage; Methods

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Marital Status; Family Characteristics; Demography; Population Characteristics; Socioeconomic Factors; Investigative Techniques

Study Officials

• Katelyn Kopakin, MA

  Jewish Family Children's Services of the Suncoast, Inc.

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Central Study Contacts

Andrew Truman, BS

CONTACT

9412564130; atruman@jfcs-cares.org

Kathleen A Moore, PhD

CONTACT

813-485-6977; katkeeley1122@gmail.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: The outside evaluators will remain blind to each condition throughout the study.
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: The Intervention group will start with assigning a Case Manager and begin Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class weekly and meet with their Case Manager as needed.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 3, 2022
• First Posted: March 28, 2022
• Study Start: February 17, 2022
• Primary Completion: June 1, 2025
• Study Completion: June 1, 2025
• Last Updated: February 27, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-02

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)