Substance Abuse Clinical Trial
— SFPonlineOfficial title:
Strengthening Families Program Online for Teens and Families
Verified date | January 2023 |
Source | Strengthening Families Program LLC |
Contact | n/a |
Is FDA regulated | No |
Health authority | |
Study type | Interventional |
This Phase II SBIR tests a newly developed web-based online parenting skills training and youth drug prevention program based on the evidenced-based "Strengthening Families Program." The study design involves a three-condition parallel randomized control trial contrasting: (1) SFP Online, (2) SFP Home-use DVD/videos, and (3) Wait-Listed Controls. DELIVERY OF INTERVENTION: The intervention condition, SFP Online, is a highly interactive, multimedia condition testing a 10-session online program with two intersecting tracks, one for parents and one for youth. Both tracks involve completion of three mini-lessons per week delivered online for 10 weeks. For the parent track (biological parents, caregivers or legal guardians), each lesson entails learning nurturing parenting skills that strengthen family bonds, setting clear boundaries with positive discipline, and monitoring youth's social activities and emotional well-being. The youth lessons teach social competence-based skills and drug refusal skills. For both tracks, lesson material is scaffolded in an integrated fashion, with challenge quizzes and process evaluations interspersed throughout the lessons. Each track includes a gaming portion to increase engagement and reinforce lesson content through stealth learning. The SFP Home-use DVD/video series is an 11-session program with the same content as the online version, but is not interactive. It is viewed either online or using a DVD player at home. In the Wait-Listed control condition, parents receive emails with food recipes and nutritional information over the same 10-week period; while their children receive emails with riddles and puzzles. At the conclusion of a 2-month follow-up period the wait-listed controls receive the SFP Online intervention, thus doubling the size of the intervention treatment condition. A second design feature is the use of a non-inferiority trial (NIT) to empirically examine the efficacy of SFP Online when compared to the Home-use DVD/videos and Group Norms data. The Group Norms, which serve as a benchmark of SFP effectiveness, is a representative, demographically matched sample of n=1400 families drawn from a database of over 6,000 families that have taken the full 14-session traditional class format of SFP. Effects sizes, using the partial eta-squared statistic, will be compared between conditions for the major outcome measures.
Status | Active, not recruiting |
Enrollment | 480 |
Est. completion date | September 30, 2023 |
Est. primary completion date | September 30, 2023 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | Accepts Healthy Volunteers |
Gender | All |
Age group | 11 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: - Computer access - Internet access - Child between 11 and 17 - Adult and child must have functional email - Only one child per family will be included unless the household has twins, in which case both children can participate - Adult (parent or legal guardian) provides informed consent and gives permission for child to participate - Child assents to participate Exclusion Criteria: - Intellectual disabilities (i.e., cognitive impairment that prohibits use of the computer) - Language difficulties (must read and understand spoken English) - Not having children that meet the intervention age criteria (11-17) - Not having an electronically signed consent/permission form - adult - Not having an electronically signed assent form - youth |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | Strengthening Families Program LLC | Salt Lake City | Utah |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Strengthening Families Program LLC |
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Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Change in family cohesion as assessed using the Moos Family Environment Scale | The investigators will assess family cohesion over time using the Moos Family Environment Scale. An example of a questions is: "I praise my child when he/she behaves well" (alpha=.79). Responses are on a 5-point scale: "1=Never;" "2=Rarely;" "3=Sometimes;" "4=Often;" "5=Almost Always;" with five (5) being the highest value. | The investigators will assess all participants at baseline, again 10-weeks later at posttest following delivery of the intervention, and again at 22 weeks post-baseline for follow-up | |
Primary | Change in parents' setting clear, firm rules against youth substance use as assessed using the Kumpfer Strengthening Families Program (SFP) Skills Instrument | The investigators will assess change in parents' setting clear, firm rules against youth substance use over time using the Kumpfer SFP Skills instrument. An example is: "Our family has set clear rules about no youth alcohol or drug use"; alpha=.79). Responses are on a 5-point scale: "1=Never;" "2=Almost never;" "3=Sometimes;" "4=Often; "5=Almost Always" with 5 being the highest value | The investigators will assess all participants at baseline, again 10-weeks later at posttest following delivery of the intervention, and again at 22 weeks post-baseline for follow-up | |
Primary | Change in parental supervision of children as assessed using the Kumpfer Strengthening Families Program (SFP) Skills instrument. | The investigators will assess parental supervision of their children over time using the Kumpfer Strengthening Families Program (SFP) Skills instrument. An example is: "I know where my child is and who he/she is with"; alpha=.70). Responses are on a 5-point scale: "1=Never;" "2=Almost never;" "3=Sometimes;" "4=Often;" "5=Almost Always" with 5 being the highest value. | The investigators will assess all participants at baseline, again 10-weeks later at posttest following delivery of the intervention, and again at 22 weeks post-baseline for follow-up | |
Primary | Change in youth attitude favorable to alcohol use over time as assessed using the Bach Harrison Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) Instrument | The investigators will assess change in youth attitude favorable to alcohol use using questions from the Bach Harrison Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) a nationally representative epidemiological survey targeting youth that is used in 14 states. An example of a question is: "How wrong do you think it is for someone your age to drink beer, wine or hard liquor (vodka, whiskey, or gin) at least once or twice a month?" Responses are on a 5 point scale: "1=Not wrong at all;" "2= a little bit wrong;" "3=Sometimes wrong;" "4=Wrong;" "5=Very Wrong;" with 5 being the highest value. | The investigators will assess all participants at baseline, again 10-weeks later at posttest following delivery of the intervention, and again at 22 weeks post-baseline for follow-up |
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