Family STEPS: Family Check-Up+
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Conditions studied: Child Behavior Problem
In brief
Interventions that promote safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between caregivers and children are key to improving healthy family relationships, reducing child socioemotional and behaviour problems, and preventing child maltreatment. Although a broad range of parenting programs are currently implemented in communities across Ontario, most programs are inadequately evaluated, or else not evaluated at all using a pilot pragmatic Hybrid Type II individually randomized controlled trial conducted within routine service settings. The trial will enroll 300 families in Ontario, Canada. The evaluation is informed by the RE-AIM framework, with a primary emphasis on Reach and Implementation and secondary examination of Effectiveness, consistent with the objectives of a Hybrid Type II design.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07433361
- Run by
- McMaster University
- People needed
- 300
- Starts
- 2026-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2029-12-31
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-02-25
Who can join
Age: 2 and older, up to 6. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Custodial caregiver of child is aged 2 to 6 years at time of screening.
- Families with sufficient knowledge of English needed for assessment measures.
- Caregivers capable of giving informed, written consent.
- Definition of 'at-risk' as measured by (a) or (b)as outlined below:
- parental mental health problems, as indexed by a score of ≥ 13 on the K6 distress scale or; (b) Meeting pre-determined criteria for higher risk, for example, a family may be eligible for FCU if any one or more of the following are present based on the Family Needs Assessment : i) child behaviour or school-related concerns; ii) parenting difficulty or low parenting confidence; iii) Substance use causing family-level problems; or iv) three or more social or material stressors affecting parenting
You may not qualify if…
- Families with in sufficient knowledge of English, Families with caregivers incapable of giving informed written consent
Where it is running
- McMaster University — Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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