Supporting Healthy Relationships Program for FRAMEWorks (SHR FRAMEWorks)

NCT05367102 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: 2021-1275190ZB0022
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 1,022
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The overarching objective for the Supporting Health Relationships (SHR) program is to create and sustain families in the Bronx by improving relationship skills, improving parenting skills, and improving parental financial support for children. The investigator's local evaluation addresses a research question about the effectiveness of delivering the SHR curriculum virtually: To what extent do couples show improvements in engagement, skills learning, and relationship quality outcomes when receiving the curriculum over Zoom?

Conditions

Parenting; Family Relations; Relationship, Family

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change in Relationship Satisfaction at 6 months

  Relationship satisfaction is assessed using the Couples Satisfaction Index-32 (Funk \& Rogge, 2007): Considered the gold standard, this measure detects differences in relationship satisfaction with great precision. This outcome measure is a scale (value 0 to 5 and 6 for one item, ranging from never; extremely bad; extremely unhappy; not at all true; always disagree, to more often; extremely good; perfect; completely true; always agree), calculated by summing the responses across all of the items. Scores can range from 0 to 161. Higher scores indicate higher levels of relationship satisfaction and scores falling below 104.5 suggest notable relationship dissatisfaction. This measure has demonstrated excellent internal consistency, convergent validity, and construct validity.

  Baseline and 6 month follow up

Secondary Outcomes (8)

• Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Applicant Characteristics

  Baseline

• Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Pre-Program Survey

  At start of intervention (Week 1 of 12)

• Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) Post-Program Survey

  Immediately post intervention (Week 12 of 12 weeks)

• Assessing Emotions Scale (Emotion Intelligence)

  Changes from Baseline Emotion Intelligence at 6 month follow up

• Parenting Alliance Inventory (Quality of Co-Parenting Relationship)

  Changes from Baseline Quality of Co-Parenting Relationship at 6 month follow up

Study Arms (2)

In Person

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will receive all services in person, including participating in the initial intake process, and attending all workshops.

Behavioral: Supporting Healthy Relationships program

Virtual (Zoom)

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will complete their intake process in person, but will complete all workshops virtually through Zoom.

Behavioral: Supporting Healthy Relationships program

Interventions

Supporting Healthy Relationships program BEHAVIORAL

The investigator will provide the following 4 activities: 1) marriage and relationship education \[using a modified version of the empirically supported Loving Couples, Loving Children (LCLC); 2) pre-marital education and marriage skills; 3) marriage enhancement and marriage skills for married couples; and 4) divorce reduction and relationship skills. All couples will be expected to participate in 24 hours of core relationship education workshops (including parenting education). Since parental financial support represents a core element of family stability, relationship education workshops will address motivation for providing financial support through employment for all couples (employed and unemployed) as well as how to manage conflicts over money. All couples will be invited to supplemental workshops (with couples from other cohorts) on topics of specialized interest, including employment services and financial literacy (i.e. budgeting, debt, etc.)

In Person; Virtual (Zoom)

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Married or unmarried couples who are 18 years or older
• Must have custodial children (biological, foster, adopted) under the age of 18 (or expectant parents)
• Income below 200% of poverty level

You may not qualify if:

• Active intimate partner violence and increased risk of intimate partner violence

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Children's Bureau - Administration for Children and Families: collaborator
• Montefiore Medical Center: lead

Study Sites (1)

Montefiore Medical Center

The Bronx, New York, 10451, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Scott Wetzler, PhD

  Montefiore Medical Center

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: The investigator will run workshops virtually, through Zoom, and in person. Participants will be randomized either to the virtual condition, or to the in person condition. Note that effective 1/1/2025, participants will no longer be randomized to one of the two study arms. See 'Detailed Description.'

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 28, 2022
• First Posted: May 10, 2022
• Study Start: April 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: June 10, 2025
• Study Completion: June 10, 2025
• Last Updated: April 13, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)