Illinois United ePREP Program Evaluation

Relationship, Marital Clinical Trial

Official title:

Illinois United: ePREP Program Evaluation

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT04378309
• Other study ID #: 20837
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: October 15, 2020
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2021
• Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Contact: Allen Barton
• Phone: 2172442009
• Email: awbarton[@]illinois.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Description:

The objective of the research is to evaluate the effectiveness of an online intervention for help-seeking couples designed to promote individual and couple well-being. Within the United States, one-third of married couples are distressed and almost half of first marriages end in divorce/separation. Relationship distress is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes, including worsened mental and physical health problems in partners as well as internalizing and externalizing problems in children. Newly developed online intervention programs for distressed couples have shown to be efficacious, but their overall reach to the general population remains limited. The current research is designed to implement and evaluate the ePREP relationship intervention with couples throughout the state of Illinois.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2025
• Est. primary completion date: December 31, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Resident of Illinois
• Married, engaged, or living with their partner for at least 6 months
• Both partners willing to participate in online relationship-focused programming

Exclusion Criteria:

• One or both partners reports severe forms of intimate partner violence occurring in the relationship

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Relational Problems
• Relationship, Marital

Intervention

Behavioral:
• ePREP
6-session online psychoeducational program with supporting coach calls

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Illinois Extension	Urbana	Illinois

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Relationship Satisfaction	Couple Satisfaction Index	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Primary	Change in Relationship Instability	3 item Relationship Instability measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Primary	Change in Partner Support	5 item Partner Support measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Primary	Change in Communication conflict	4 item communication conflict measure (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Primary	Change in Relationship confidence	4 item relationship confidence measure (from Stanley et al., 1994)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Primary	Change in Intervention-target behavior	PREP 3 keys (new measure created for this study, assessing participants confidence in implementing each of the 3 keys of the PREP program)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Partner Aggression	7 item partner aggression (from Doss et al., 2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Psychological distress	Kessler 6 item psychological distress	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Anger	NIH PROMIS 5 item anger measure	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Perceived Stress	Cohen's 10 item perceived stress measure	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in General Health	SF-36 4 item general health perceptions	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Insomnia	7 item insomnia severity index	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Problematic Alcohol Use	PROMIS 7 item problematic alcohol use	Immediate and 6-month follow-up
Secondary	Change in Exercise	1 item exercise (CDC BRFSS 2016 adaptation)	Immediate and 6-month follow-up