Cradling Our Future Through Family Strengthening Study

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Substance Abuse, Post-partum Depression, Depression

In brief

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an in-home, paraprofessional-delivered family strengthening curriculum entitled Family Spirit is effective at increasing parental competence, improving maternal outcomes and improving childhood outcomes in a sample of at-risk teen mothers living in four Native American reservation communities. The effectiveness of the Family Spirit curriculum will be determined by comparing outcomes of mothers who receive the intervention plus assisted transportation to prenatal and well baby visits (called Optimal Standardized Care) to mothers who receive only Optimal Standardized Care. Outcomes will be assessed at multiple intervals over the course of a 39-month study period.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00373750

Run by

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

People needed

322

Starts

2006-06-01

Expected to finish

2010-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-01-12

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 19. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Pregnant AI females aged 12 to 19 years old at time of conception.
• Gestational age of 28 weeks or less (in order to complete intervention prior to delivery).
• Parent/guardian consent for youth under 18 years old.
• Reside within 1-hour transportation range (50 miles) of the local Indian Health Service medical facility.

You may not qualify if…

• Current participation in other mental or behavior health research project.
• Factors that preclude full participation, identified at baseline and after caseness review, including: unstable and severe medical, psychiatric or drug use problem; acute suicidal or homicidal ideation requiring immediate intervention; recent, severe stressful life event such as physical or sexual abuse, or victim of a violent crime that requires specific and high intensity intervention or out of home placement; or chronic pattern of unstable caretakers or living situation.

Where it is running

• Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health — Fort Defiance, Arizona, United States
• Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health — San Carlos, Arizona, United States
• Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health — Tuba City, Arizona, United States
• Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health — Whiteriver, Arizona, United States
• Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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