Restoring Empowerment and Choosing Hope (REACH)
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorJewish Family & Children's Service of the Suncoast, Inc.
About this trial
The goals of REACH are to help adults develop the skills they need to develop healthy relationship and marriage skills, improve ability to parent and co-parent effectively, identify and enhance skills and abilities required to gain or retain economic self-sufficiency, and foster family stability and increase successful marriage rates. Data from the tri-county region comprised of Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties demonstrates the presence of a number of risk factors affecting family stability, including high rates of single-parent households, births to unwed mothers, and high median rent costs compared to poverty rates and income. By providing families with relationship enhancement, parenting, and economic self-sufficiency services, this should help to optimize each family member's quality of life and improve child well-being.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
adults age 18 or older
interested in education about strengthening their current marriage or committed relationship
reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties on the Gulf Coast of Florida
Disqualifiers
under age 18
do not reside in Sarasota, Manatee, and Charlotte counties
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) Intervention
BehavioralThe Intervention group will be assigned a Case Manager and placed in the next available Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) class that is convenient for their schedule. Intervention participants will attend classes weekly and meet with their Case Manager weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly, as needed. Study measures will be gathered from intervention participants at baseline, 10 weeks after baseline, and then 22 weeks after baseline. The following tools will be utilized at baseline and follow-up assessment: (1) REACH program eligibility screening (only conducted at baseline), (2) Information, Family Outcomes, Reporting, and Management (nFORM) system, (3) Family Environment Scale (FES), (4) Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS), and (5) Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS).
Treatment groups
900 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: Marriage and Relationship Enhancement Skills (MRES) InterventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Wait list controlNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Family Environment Survey (FES)
The FES was developed to measure social and environmental characteristics of families. Face and content validity are supported by clear statements about family situations that relate to subscale domains, and the measure can differentiate between distressed and normal family samples.
Time frame
22 weeks after baselineSecondary outcomes
1
Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS)
The RDAS is a 32-item self-report standardized measure with 4 subscales (Dyadic Consensus, Dyadic Satisfaction, Affectional Expression, Dyadic Cohesion) in addition to a total score.
Time frame
22 weeks after baselineOther outcomes
1
Economic Self-Sufficiency Scale (ESS)
The ESS includes the following subscales with demonstrated reliability and validity: 1) Financial Management Attitudes Scale, 2) Scale of Economic Self-Sufficiency, 3) Financial Knowledge Scale, 4) Family Empowerment Scale, and 5) Financial Management and Planning Behaviors.
Time frame
22 weeks after baselineSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov