Parenting Clinical Trial
Official title:
Investigating the Impact of A Veteran-Focused Parenting Program on Parenting Stress, Competence and Parenting Practices
Veterans or spouses of veterans with a minor child will participate in a five-week parenting program. The goals of the parenting program are to assist in improving parent's sense of competence, improving parent's emotional regulation abilities, and lower parental stress by incorporating mindfulness and values-based parenting principles. The program will utilize evidence-based practices that will be delivered in a manner that incorporates aspects of military culture (i.e., language and concepts are tailored to that used within military culture). Mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy have been shown to be effective in treating service members [1], and this will be the first study that examines how learning these principles do or do not impact parenting stress, competence, and practices. The parenting program is free, and is offered by the investigators as a community service. Participation in the parenting program does not obligate enrollment in the research study.
There are over 312,000 Veterans living in the state of Oklahoma [2]. The Coffee Bunker is a
non-profit community agency in Tulsa, Oklahoma that serves as the flagships program for
Serving Our Service Members (S.O.S). The Coffee Bunker's mission is to offer support to
service members and Veterans by helping them reintegrate back into their families and
communities. The overall purpose of the present study is to work with the Coffee Bunker in
offering support towards their mission, specifically in delivering organized parenting
programs to service members and Veterans.
Challenges of reintegration after a military deployment can increase levels of stress for
Veterans, spouses, and their children. In fact, it is common for Veterans or service members
who struggle with reintegration in their family to report feelings of isolation and lack of
perceived control, which may impact their ability to parent effectively. The struggles of
parents can negatively impact the functioning of the family, such that children may exhibit
more behavioral problems and Veterans parents may be more vulnerable to mental health
symptomology [3, 4]. Fortunately, research suggests that positive and effective parenting
practices can mitigate family stressors [5, 6]. As such, given the stressors of reintegration
among military families, it may be advantageous to implement an evidence-based
psychoeducation parenting program tailored to Veterans. The goals of the parenting program
are to assist in improving parent's sense of competence, improving parent's emotional
regulation abilities, and lower parental stress. The current project will be evaluating
possible benefits from an evidence-based parenting program with military families. The
parenting program is free, and is offered by the investigators as a community service.
Participation in the parenting program does not obligate enrollment in the study. This is
made possible by one of the PI's (Zanotti's) Schweitzer Fellowship; Zanotti is conducting the
parenting program along with Dr. Cromer, as a community service.
The research portion of this study will be voluntary, and while participants will be
recruited from the parenting program, it will be made clear that they can opt into the
parenting program without doing any of the research measures. The research portion evaluates
whether participation in the parenting program reduces parenting stress, increases feelings
of parenting competence, and improves parenting practices. This study is unique in that
evidence-based practices will be delivered in a manner that incorporates aspects of military
culture (i.e., language and concepts are tailored to that used within military culture). The
parenting program will incorporate mindfulness and values-based parenting principles.
Mindfulness and acceptance and commitment therapy have been shown to be effective in treating
service members [1] and this will be the first study that examines how learning these
principles do or do not impact parenting stress, competence, and practices.
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