Local Evaluation of the Saint Francis Ministries Fatherho... | NCT05097833

NCT05097833

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Description Module

Detailed Description

This project is based on federal legislation that requires evaluation of a program being implemented and delivered by Saint Francis Ministries, a community-based non-profit organization serving children and families. Saint Francis Ministries received federal funds to expand and deliver the Fatherhood FIRE Program to community-based and justice-system involved fathers in their service area. The FIRE program, which stands for Family-Oriented, Interconnected, Resilient, and Essential, aims to promote responsible and positive fatherhood parenting practices and develop and maintain healthy relationships with their partners and other co-parents (e.g., mothers of their children). Evaluation of the program is a condition of Saint Francis Ministries' grant award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The KU evaluation team at the School of Social Welfare has been contracted by Saint Francis Ministries to conduct the evaluation. The evaluation will be carried out in two parts: 1) a process evaluation and 2 an outcomes evaluation. The process and target populations for both the process and outcomes components are as follows. PROCESS EVALUATION: The process study involves individuals involved in the implementation of the Fatherhood FIRE program at Saint Francis Ministries. Specific populations eligible for inclusion in the process evaluation include: (1) implementation teams facilitating the Fatherhood FIRE program in three states in Saint Francis Ministries service area (Kansas, Nebraska, & Texas), (2) members of the Fatherhood FIRE Data, Assessment, and Dissemination Workgroup, an advisory group comprised of Saint Francis program administrators and the evaluation team charged with planning and overseeing data collection, evaluation, and dissemination efforts, and (3) the evaluation study team. OUTCOMES EVALUATION: Fathers ages 18 and older who are not incarcerated and are enrolled and participating in the Fatherhood FIRE program. To be eligible for inclusion in the evaluation study, program participants must not be incarcerated, have children up to age 24, and may be living with or apart from their children. Eligible participants may be biological parents, adoptive or foster parents, or other caregivers in the parenting role if they have children who meet the age criteria.

Design Module

Interventional Study Design

Biospecimen

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Arms/Interventions Module

Arm Groups

Label	Type	Description	Intervention Names
Enhanced Treatment Group	Experimental	Randomized group of participants receiving an enhanced Fatherhood FIRE program.	Behavioral: Enhanced Saint Francis Fatherhood FIRE Program
Control Group	Active Comparator	Randomized group of participants receiving the 'services as usual' Fatherhood program.	Behavioral: Services as Usual Saint Francis Fatherhood FIRE Program

Interventions

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Enhanced Saint Francis Fatherhood FIRE Program	Behavioral	Fathers receive an enhanced series of pro-parenting, relationship, and economic stability workshops over 16 weeks. Workshop series are based on a diverse curricula including a combination of either 24/7 Dad or Parent Project and Connections to Success and the Nurturing Fathers enhancement program.

Outcomes Module

Primary Outcomes

Measure	Description	Time Frame
Healthy relationship and marriage skills	Dads in the enhanced group demonstrate larger and more sustained change in healthy relationship and marriage skills (e.g., compromise and interactional reactivity) than the control group. The measurement tool used to assess this outcome is the Romantic Partner Conflict Scale (Zacchilli, Hendrick, & Hendrick, 2009).	Measurement of the outcome will occur at three-time points: 1) Pre intervention, 2) at program completion an average of 16 weeks after pre-intervention measure, 3) 3-months post program completion
Parenting skills	Dads in the enhanced group demonstrate larger and more sustained change in parenting skills than the control group. The measurement tool used to assess this outcome is the Parenting Sense of Competence Scale (Ohan, Leung, & Jonston, 2000; Johnston & Mash, 1989; Gillmore & Cuskelly, 2008).	Measurement of the outcome will occur at three-time points: 1) Pre intervention, 2) at program completion an average of 16 weeks after pre-intervention measure, 3) 3-months post program completion
Co-parenting skills	Dads in the enhanced group demonstrate larger and more sustained change in co-parenting skills than the control group. The measurement tool used to assess this outcome is the Daily Co-Parenting Scale (D-COP; McDaniel, Teti, & Feinberg, 2017).	Measurement of the outcome will occur at three-time points: 1) Pre intervention, 2) at program completion an average of 16 weeks after pre-intervention measure, 3) 3-months post program completion
Father-child engagement	Dads in the enhanced group demonstrate larger and more sustained change in father/child engagement than the control group. The measurement tool used to assess this outcome is the Inventory of Father Involvement (Hawkins, Bradford, Palkovitz, & Christiansen, 1999).	Measurement of the outcome will occur at three-time points: 1) Pre intervention, 2) at program completion an average of 16 weeks after pre-intervention measure, 3) 3-months post program completion

Eligibility Module

Name	Affiliation	Role
Jared L Barton, PhD	University of Kansas	Principal Investigator

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
University of Kansas School of Social Welfare		Lawrence	Kansas	66045	United States

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