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NCT number NCT06075446
Other study ID # H22282
Secondary ID R01CE003333-01
Status Recruiting
Phase
First received
Last updated
Start date March 28, 2022
Est. completion date September 30, 2024

Study information

Verified date October 2023
Source Georgia State University
Contact Rebekka Zydel, AA
Phone 404-413-1142
Email rzydel@gsu.edu
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this observational study is to assess the American Psychological Association's ACT Raising Safe Kids program with male caregivers. The main question[s] it aims to answer are: • Will male caregivers in the ACT Raising Safe Kids program report lower child maltreatment, rates of interpersonal violence, and youth aggression. • Does the ACT RSK program have a positive return on investment and will children and caregivers in the ACT RSK condition have a higher quality adjusted life years. Participants will complete four surveys over time and attend the 9-week ACT Raising Safe Kids program. Researchers will compare survey responses from male caregivers taking the ACT Raising Safe Kids classes to male caregivers not taking ACT Raising Safe Kids classes to see if there are changes in anger regulation, family conflict, parent-child conflict, and relationship satisfaction.


Description:

The overall goal of the proposed 3-year project is to determine the efficacy and cost-benefit of ACT Raising Safe Kids, an evidence-based child maltreatment (CM) prevention program to prevent multiple forms of violence by male caregivers and their children. The program, ACT Raising Safe Kids (ACT), was developed by the American Psychological Association and identified in the Center for Disease Control & Prevention's technical package, Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect, as a promising strategy to prevent child maltreatment. Evidence suggests the ACT program reduces coercive, harsh, and physically aggressive parenting practices; increases positive, nurturing parenting practices; and reduces children's externalizing, aggressive, bullying behavior. While suggesting the efficacy of ACT in reducing child maltreatment, existing program evaluations have been limited by the near complete absence of male caregivers in the evaluations. This is a critical gap as male caregivers are perpetrators in nearly 50% of substantiated child maltreatment cases and are more likely to engage in harsh discipline and corporal punishment that could cause injury. The true innovation of the work lies in examining the potential of ACT to additionally prevent intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration by male caregivers and subsequent youth violence (YV) by their children. To date, no evaluation of ACT has examined the combined prevention effects on CM, IPV, and YV among men or women.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 500
Est. completion date September 30, 2024
Est. primary completion date September 30, 2024
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender Male
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Full or partial custody of a child between the ages of one and ten years. Must read English or Spanish. Exclusion Criteria: -

Study Design


Related Conditions & MeSH terms


Intervention

Behavioral:
ACT Raising Safe Kids
American Psychological Association ACT Raising Safe Kids

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Georgia State University School of Public Health Atlanta Georgia

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Georgia State University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Corporal punishment Measured by subscale on the Parent Child Conflict Tactics Scale. One year post intervention.
Secondary Parenting distress Measured by the Parenting Stress Index. One year post intervention.
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