Description Module
The Description Module contains narrative descriptions of the clinical trial, including a brief summary and detailed description. These descriptions provide important information about the study's purpose, methodology, and key details in language accessible to both researchers and the general public.
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Description Module
Ignite Creation Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:56 PM
Ignite Modification Date:
2025-12-24 @ 5:56 PM
NCT ID:
NCT02294968
Brief Summary:
The aims of this study are to determine whether a group-based parent support program ("Family Startup") can lead to early improved parental sense of competence, family relations, and child development. Evaluation is based on a randomized controlled trial, with half of the participants receiving Family Startup and the other half receiving treatment as usual.
Detailed Description:
Some knowledge exists about effectiveness of high-intensity delivery of parenting support to subsets of at risk families. To the best of our knowledge, however, little is known about effects of universal primary prevention programs.
The Family Startup Program is a structured format for implementing pre- and postnatal parenting support groups that prepare new families for their roles as parents as well as focus on enhancing parents' social network. The Family Startup Program gathers couples in groups and introduces participants to informal sources of support (e.g. by meeting and interacting with other new families) and to a broad range of community resources (e.g. financial advisers, child dentist, local solicitors, family counselors) providing them with information and parenting skills. The program content includes handling family finance, choice of paternity leave, couple communication, breastfeeding, network formation, ensuring dental health, sensitivity toward child signals, child rearing discipline, help-seeking behavior, home safety, and more.
A second formulated rational behind the program is that strengthening father involvement, social network formation and access to family services will serve to enhance family relationships, including parenting, coparenting and couple relationship quality. Through participation in Family Startup, families receive a long term connection with a health visitor in the community and are introduced to a broad range of community services. This can be expected to benefit optimal health service utility and ease access to resources for families and children with need. Improved child outcome are the ultimate goal. No scientific evaluation of program effects of the Family Startup program on child or family outcome was previously conducted.
Study:
NCT02294968
Study Brief:
Protocol Section:
NCT02294968