Randomized Control Trial of the Co-Parenting for Resilience Program

Enrolling by invitation · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Child Wellbeing

In brief

Because parental divorce has been linked to a significant increase in mental health diagnoses among children, it is important to develop effective interventions that reduce the negative impact of divorce on children. This study assesses the efficacy of the Co-Parenting for Resilience (CPR) resilience program by randomly assigning divorcing individuals to three different forms of the intervention to test whether one or both of versions of CPR are better than reading a self-help book, and whether an in-person version of CPR is more effective than an online version. The three conditions or versions are: 1) an in-person version of CPR taught by a trained non-clinician, 2) an asynchronous fully online version of CPR, and 3) a group that simply reads a self-help book and responds to a knowledge check to ensure the material was read.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06840431

Run by

Oklahoma State University

People needed

300

Starts

2024-07-01

Expected to finish

2027-12-31

Last updated by the study team

2026-03-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• One adult member of a dyad filing for a divorce or legal separation (e.g., non-married couples) in Oklahoma County with a biological minor child aged 4-10,
• Being an English or Spanish speaker,
• Having internet access necessary for the online group (necessary for this randomized trial.
• In the event participants have more than one child, they will be asked to report on their oldest child with the person they are divorcing who is age 10 or under. Focus on the oldest child counterbalances the age distribution of children expected per our preliminary data, thereby facilitating a test of age differences in treatment effects.

You may not qualify if…

• Parents under the age of 18,
• Parents who do not consent to randomization,
• Parents who are illiterate.
• Only one member of the dyad will be allowed in the study.
• We also exclude parents for whom the target child is not the biological child of both parents. Stepfamilies, adoptive families, grandparents raising grandchildren, and other family types have dynamics not directly comparable to families with two biological parents and is beyond the scope of this study.

Where it is running

• Oklahoma State University — Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States

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