RCT of the Jewish Family & Children's Services (JFCS) HFHC Program

Family Relations Clinical Trial

— JFCS:HFHC  

Official title:

Randomized Controlled Trial of the Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.'s Healthy Families/Healthy Children Program

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02853825
• Other study ID #: 2016/06/35
• Secondary ID: 90FM0070
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 28, 2016
• Last updated: August 15, 2017
• Start date: July 1, 2016
• Est. completion date: September 2020

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• Source: Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
• Contact: Rhonda Blumenthal, MS
• Phone: 941-366-2224
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Every program element was designed to ensure that all children in the areas served will live in stable, happy, healthy family situations. The JFCS Healthy Families/Healthy Children program will provide relationship skill enhancement interventions. All program participants in the intervention group will have acces to: parenting skill enhancement interventions, employment readiness and/or situation enhancement, as well as financial knowledge and/or situation enhancement.

Description:

The goal of the Healthy Families/Healthy Children (HFHC) program is to ensure that all children in The Region live in stable, happy, healthy family situations. HFHC will be able to deliver existing services that have proven effective and new services that are research-based. Need to be addressed: Unhealthy relationships, inadequate parental skills and attitudes related to nurturing and responsible parenting, lack of knowledge of finances and/or economic self sufficiency, underdeveloped employment readiness skills, difficult-to-access job opportunities and housing. Proposed Services: In conjunction with a wide-range of community partners operating a comprehensive system of care, JFCS will provide a public advertising campaign, Marriage and Relationship Education/Skills (MRES), Nurturing Parenting education, financial management education and services, and job career advancement services. HFHC is designed around a strong marriage and relationship education/skills (MRES) component. The program includes parenting skills classes, a robust effort to address participation barriers, and partnership with local employment and employment skill-building agencies to address the economic stability needs of participants. Case management and support service coordination ensure comprehensive service delivery for every participant. Participants will have meaningful improvements in marriage/relationship skills, improved parenting/co-parenting skills, improved family functioning,improved adult and child well-being, and increased economic stability/reduced poverty. Population groups to be served: Low-income individuals, couples, engaged couples, and married couples 18 years of age up to 64 years of age and their family members.Research component: The project will conduct a randomized controlled trial to test hypotheses regarding our program's effectiveness. The Control group will be on a wait list and will not receive the Intervention (i.e., program services) until their final post-test measures are completed.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 786
• Est. completion date: September 2020
• Est. primary completion date: June 2020
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 64 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Residents of Sarasota and Manatee Counties

Exclusion Criteria:

• No minors

• No one over 64 years of age

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Family Relations

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Relationship Skill Enhancement
Receive relationship classes with access to parenting, employment services, and financial services.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	JFCS	Sarasota	Florida

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Jewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	The Family Environment Scale		26 Weeks
Primary	Dyadic Adjustment Scale		26 Weeks