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| 1R01DA059914-01A1 | U.S. NIH Grant/Contract | View source |
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| Name | Class |
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| APT Foundation, Inc. | OTHER |
| VA Connecticut Healthcare System | FED |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) | NIH |
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This study involves a randomized controlled trial of Fathers for Change (F4C) compared to Individual Drug Counseling (IDC) with a sample of 280 fathers enrolled in substance use (SU) treatment within community or veterans (VA) healthcare settings to (a) demonstrate F4C efficacy compared to IDC in reducing SU and family violence (FV) at end of treatment, 3- and 6-month post-treatment follow-up, and (b) document improved emotion regulation as the mechanism within F4C that results in reduced SU and FV.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Fathers for Change | Experimental |
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| Individual Drug Counseling | Active Comparator |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Fathers for Change (F4C) | Behavioral | Defining features of F4C delivered over 18 sessions: 1) focus on the fathers model of fatherhood as a motivator for change, 2) focus on understanding and identifying feelings, teaching skills to identify and change emotional dysregulation that lead to both SU and FV, 3) co-parent communication skills to reduce stress and improve problem solving, 4) restorative parenting (see Table 1 and figure 1)127. F4C focuses on reflective understanding of emotional experiences, how that impacts thoughts and behaviors related to SU, FV, co-parenting/parenting each session. Through greater self-awareness, the father is better able to apply coping, communication and parenting skills introduced to reduce SU and FV. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Substance Misuse | Self-reported days of substance misuse reported a positive breathalyzer/urine tox screen will be used to create a sum of the number of weeks with use during treatment and at each follow-up period. | Baseline (week 0), weekly during treatment for through 18 week, Post-Treatment at week 19, week 32 and week 45 |
| Family Violence (FV) | Any instance of FV either toward a partner or child identified by any report (self-report on the Timeline Followback weekly surveys, child protection or arrest record) will be counted to allow for the best estimate of FV across reports resulting in a sum count of the number of FV incidents during the 18 weeks of treatment and from post-treatment to each follow-up timepoint | Baseline (week 0), weekly during treatment for through 18 week, Post-Treatment at week 19, week 32 and week 45 |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Emotion Dysregulation | The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale will be used to measure self-reported emotion regulation. Sum scores range from 18 to 90 with higher scores suggesting more impaired emotion regulation. | Baseline (week 0), Post-Treatment at week 19, week 32 and week 45 |
| Articulated Thoughts in Simulated Situations (ATSS) |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Carla S Stover, Ph.D. | Contact | 2037853486 | carla.stover@yale.edu |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Carla S Stover, Ph.D. | Yale University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Yale University Child Study Center | Recruiting | New Haven | Connecticut | 06520 | United States |
Clinical/assessment data will be deposited into Harvard Dataverse at the conclusion of study data collection and publication of primary study specific aims.
The research community will have access to data when the primary analyses have been completed and published.
Researchers will request access to the data through a standard request and approval by the study PI and then release by the repository
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| Individual Drug Counseling (IDC) | Behavioral | IDC is an individual evidence-based SU treatment84 that incorporates two elements: endorsement of the disease model and the spiritual dimensions of recovery. These elements differentiate the approach from F4C. IDC is influenced by 12-step recovery philosophy and participation in 12-step groups like NA are encouraged. The model places focus on the individual in recovery without a focus on fatherhood or co-parenting. IDC will be offered in an 18-session format. |
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The participants responses to the ATSS will be coded for hostile responding and will serve as a non-self-report measure of emotion regulation. Scores range from 0 to 5 with 5 being greater hostile responding across scenarios. |
| Baseline (week 0) and Post-Treatment (week 18) |
| APT Foundation | Recruiting | West Haven | Connecticut | 06516 | United States |
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