Connected Through Coaching for Flourishing Families

NCT06145451 | Active Not Recruiting

• 3 other identifiers: STUDY231100741 K01CE003543-01-001K01CE003543-01
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 612
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 3

Brief Summary

Despite the known association between the quality of participant relational engagement with service providers and clinical outcomes, limited studies have examined caregiver Relational Responsiveness (RR) as a mechanism to achieve maltreatment prevention program outcomes. Using a realist-informed mixed method approach, this study will examine RR's role in mediating the effects of a community-based maltreatment prevention program, the Family Success Network (FSN) on protective factors against maltreatment and the contexts within which RR's mediation effects are activated or inhibited.

Conditions

Maltreatment by Parent

Keywords

maltreatment prevention, relational responsiveness

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Protective factors

  The family protective factors will be assessed using the Protective Factors Survey - Second Edition (PFS-2). It is a 19-item, 5-point Likert scale assessing 1) Family Functioning/Resilience \[family's adaptive skills and strategies to persevere in times of crisis, 3 items, subscale score of 0-3\], 2) Nurturing/Attachment \[emotional bond and positive parent-child interactions, 4 items, subscale score of 0-4\]; 3) Concrete Supports \[perceived access to tangible goods and services, 2 items, subscale score of 0-8\]; 4) Social Supports \[4 items, subscale score of 0-16 plus the number of items checked in the social support checklist, which ranges between 0-4\]. Except for the concrete support subscale in which higher scores indicate lower level of concrete support, higher scores indicate higher level of assessed qualities in all the other subscales.

  baseline vs. 3 month (at the time of service completion)

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Relational Responsiveness

  baseline vs. 3 month (at the time of service completion)

Study Arms (2)

Treatment group

EXPERIMENTAL

The Family Success Network is a multi-tier, multi-component community-based maltreatment prevention program that offers tailored preventive services for caregivers of children aged 0-18. Average lengths of service completion is approximately 3 months.

Behavioral: Family Success Network

Waitlist Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Families in the Control Group will not receive any FSN services except concrete support of upto $500.

Interventions

Family Success Network BEHAVIORAL

The Family Success Network (FSN) is a community-based maltreatment prevention program that is being piloted to serve caregivers of children aged between 0-18 in the Trumbull, Mahoning, and Columbiana Counties in Ohio. FSN is a comprehensive multi-tier program providing information and referrals to community resources at Tier I (i.e., the initial contact stage), caregiver education, and financial literacy program along with concrete support at Tier II (i.e., enrollment in family coaching services in FSN), and a life skills program and monthly home visits for families with more intensive needs at tier III (most intensive level of FSN services).

Also known as: FSN

Treatment group

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Being an adult primary caregiver living in the tri-county area
• Having at least one child aged between 0-17
• Reporting at least one maltreatment risk factor at the time of intake
• Receiving family coaching services at Tier II and above in FSN.

You may not qualify if:

• Having a substantiated history of child maltreatment

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Pittsburgh: lead
• Ohio State University: collaborator
• Case Western Reserve University: collaborator
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: collaborator

Study Sites (3)

Case Western Reserve University

Cleveland, Ohio, 44106, United States

Location

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio, 43210, United States

Location

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States

Location

Related Publications (2)

• Collaborative fidelity assessment planning for the evaluation of a community-based maltreatment prevention model: The family success network (FSN) D. J. Moon, M. Johnson-Motoyama, C. Bailey Nichols, N. Rolock, H. Haran and R. Bai Children and Youth Services Review 2022 Vol. 137 Pages 106457 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2022.106457

  BACKGROUND

• Johnson-Motoyama M, Moon D, Rolock N, Crampton D, Nichols CB, Haran H, Zhang Y, Motoyama Y, Gonzalez E, Sillaman N. Social Determinants of Health and Child Maltreatment Prevention: The Family Success Network Pilot. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Nov 21;19(22):15386. doi: 10.3390/ijerph192215386.

  PMID: 36430105 BACKGROUND

Study Officials

• Deborah Moon, PhD

  University of Pittsburgh

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Masking Details: Researchers have no direct contact with research participants as all data collection activities are carried out by care providers.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Associate Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: November 17, 2023
• First Posted: November 24, 2023
• Study Start: August 16, 2024
• Primary Completion: September 15, 2025
• Study Completion (Estimated): September 1, 2026
• Last Updated: October 30, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (3)