Supporting Military Family Resilience at the Transition to Parenthood: A Randomized Pilot Trial of an Online Version of Family Foundations

Feinberg, Mark E.; Boring, Jesse L.; Le, Yunying; Hostetler, Michelle L.; Karre, Jennifer K.; Irvin, Jamie; Jones, Damon

doi:10.1111/fare.12415

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“…Tests of FF program effectiveness and mediational pathways in earlier waves of this study and other FF trials (Feinberg et al, 2009, 2020; Jones et al, 2018; Solmeyer et al, 2014) support the potential benefits for parents and children of targeting the coparenting relationship in a preventive manner. Moreover, the benefits of enhanced coparenting quality at family formation appear durable; we have reported long‐term impacts of FF as far out as 7 years after birth on teacher's reports of children's internalizing, externalizing, and academic adjustment (Feinberg et al, 2014).…”

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“…This study found evidence that effective, early preventive intervention for families may not only have long‐term effects for all family members, but may also serve a protective function during unforeseen periods of stress and anxiety such as the early phase of the COVID‐19 pandemic. These results add to a growing body of evidence for the efficacy of FF’s strategic focus on enhancing coparenting; this evidence now extends across multiple delivery modalities, including in‐person and videoconference classes, an online self‐study e‐version (Feinberg et al, 2020), home visiting with low‐income parents (Ammerman et al, 2021), and school‐based classes for adolescent parents. Evidence of program effects also comes from pre‐/post‐evaluations of the FF program adapted for parents who already have children; one study was conducted with a parent peer mentoring version of FF for parents of young children with autism spectrum disorder (Hock et al, under review), and another home visit version adapted for Australian parents at risk for family violence (Giallo et al, under review).…”

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confidence: 64%

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Building long‐term family resilience through universal prevention: 10‐year parent and child outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic

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As the COVID‐19 pandemic has been highly stressful for parents and children, it is clear that strategies that promote long‐term family resilience are needed to protect families in future crises. One such strategy, the Family Foundations program, is focused on promoting supportive coparenting at the transition to parenthood. In a randomized trial, we tested the long‐term intervention effects of Family Foundations on parent, child, and family well‐being one to two months after the imposition of a national shelter‐in‐place public health intervention in 2020. We used regression models to test intervention impact on outcomes reported on by parents in a standard questionnaire format and a series of 8 days of daily reports. We also tested moderation of intervention impact by parent depression and coparenting relationship quality. Relative to control families, intervention families demonstrated significantly lower levels of individual and family problems (general parent hostility, harsh and aggressive parenting, coparenting conflict, sibling relationship conflict, and children's negative mood and behavior problems), and higher levels of positive family relationship quality (positive parenting, couple relationship quality, sibling relations, and family cohesion). For some outcomes, including coparenting conflict, harsh parenting, and child behavior problems, intervention effects were larger for more vulnerable families—that is, families with higher pre‐pandemic levels of parent depression or lower levels of coparenting relationship quality. We conclude that targeted family prevention programming is able to promote healthy parent and child functioning during unforeseen future periods of acute stress. The long‐term benefits of a universal approach to family support at the transition to parenthood indicate the need for greater investment in the dissemination of effective approaches.

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“…For this reason, we recommend that practitioners offer services using multiple methods, such as offering make‐up lessons or offering services in a hybrid model where students can attend in‐person or online simultaneously. The benefits of providing web‐based programs for healthy relationship programming or enhancing coparenting have been studied in adult couples (Doss et al., 2016 ; Feinberg et al., 2019 ), but are needed with Latinx adolescent parents. However, we believe this might be a promising practice in helping students remain involved in school‐based programs.…”

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Adapting a Coparenting‐Focused Prevention Program for Latinx Adolescent Parents in a School Context

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The current study utilized a three‐step cultural adaptation process to adapt a universal‐coparenting program for Latinx adolescent parents in a school‐based setting. First, focus groups were conducted with adolescent parents (n = 13; 100% Latinx; 69% female), their parents (n = 17; 94% Latinx; 82% female), and school staff (n = 7; 71% White; 100% female) to identify unique needs faced by this population. Second, the program was adapted to include new lesson modules (e.g., coparenting with grandparents, coparenting after breakups) and structural reformatting to fit a school schedule. Third, selected lessons from the adapted program were piloted in four schools with 32 Latinx adolescent parents (97% Latinx; 78% female). Lesson evaluation surveys and focus group data assessed the feasibility and acceptability of the service delivery method and content to show the program was well received. However, implementation challenges emerged when attempting to provide services to adolescent fathers and Spanish‐speaking adolescents. This manuscript provides an example of how to use this cultural adaptation process to tailor prevention programs, highlights a new prevention program that can serve as a resource for adolescent parents, and provides several recommendations for working with Latinx adolescent parents.

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“…Participants in the current study were recruited primarily from central Pennsylvania, as well as Delaware and Texas, between 2008 and 2012 for a randomized trial of Family Foundations, a transition to parenthood prevention program (Feinberg et al, 2016(Feinberg et al, , 2019Feinberg, Roettger, Jones, Paul, & Kan, 2015;Jones et al, 2018). Parents were eligible for the trial if they were at least 18 years of age and resided together.…”

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Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

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To quantify the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic and public health interventions on parent and child mental health and family relationships, we examined change in individual and family functioning in a sample of parents enrolled in a prevention trial; we examined change before the pandemic (2017–2019) when children were an average of 7 years old to the first months after the imposition of widespread public health interventions in the United States (2020) with paired t tests and HLM models. We examined moderation by parent gender, education, family income, and coparenting conflict. We found large deteriorations from before the pandemic to the first months of the pandemic in child internalizing and externalizing problems and parent depression, and a moderate decline in coparenting quality. Smaller changes were found for parent anxiety and parenting quality. Mothers and families with lower levels of income were at particular risk for deterioration in well‐being. Results indicate a need for widespread family support and intervention to prevent potential family “scarring,” that is, prolonged, intertwined individual mental health and family relationship problems.

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Supporting Military Family Resilience at the Transition to Parenthood: A Randomized Pilot Trial of an Online Version of Family Foundations

Cited by 22 publications

References 68 publications

Building long‐term family resilience through universal prevention: 10‐year parent and child outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Building long‐term family resilience through universal prevention: 10‐year parent and child outcomes during the COVID‐19 pandemic

Adapting a Coparenting‐Focused Prevention Program for Latinx Adolescent Parents in a School Context

Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Parent, Child, and Family Functioning

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