Marriage Education and Risk Reduction for Army Families

军队家庭的婚姻教育和降低风险

基本信息

批准号：
8426185
负责人：
SCOTT M STANLEY
金额：
$ 53.87万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER (COLORADO SEMINARY)
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2006
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2006-05-01 至 2016-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8426185
关键词：
Address Basic Science Boat Child Communities Couples Development Distress Divorce Education Educational Intervention Effectiveness Evaluation Family Family health status Fostering Foundations Funding Future Goals Individual Individual Adjustment Intervention Intervention Studies Investigation Knowledge Left Life Literature Long-Term Effects Marriage Measurement Mediator of activation protein Mental Health Methods Military Personnel Mission Outcome Phase Population Heterogeneity Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders Prevention Prevention program Process Psyche structure Public Health Randomized Recruitment Activity Registries Reporting Research Research Support Risk Risk Reduction Sampling Scientific Advances and Accomplishments Services Site Sorting - Cell Movement Stress Substance abuse problem Surveys Symptoms Testing Time United States Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Work base design dissemination trial effectiveness trial experience follow-up health economics improved intervention effect member mental disorder prevention post intervention prevent programs prospective public health relevance randomized trial response stressor young adult

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Consistent with NICHD's mission to support research on relationship dynamics, divorce, and interventions to promote strong and healthy families, we seek a continuation of a community level, controlled, longitudinal and randomized dissemination trial of the effectiveness of an empirically-based relationship education program for Army couples delivered by Army chaplains. The intervention is an adaptation of the Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP) for Army couples, designed to target risk and protective factors for marital distress which are associated with problems in individual and family functioning. Our current funding period allows us to assess the effects of the intervention for up to 3.5 years post intervention in a sample of 662 couples (343 PREP, 319 control). We seek a continuation of this project in order to test impacts and marital processes over a longer time frame (up to 8.5 years post intervention). The longer time frame is important for the prospective evaluation of intervention effects for relationship quality and individual adjustment over time, and gain greater power to detect intervention effects for outcomes that accrue over time, such as divorce and infidelity. Our specific aims for the renewal are: 1. To assess the long-term effects of an empirically-based relationship education program on relationship quality, relationship stability, and individual mental health. 2. Assess the long-term effects of relationship education on outcomes of specific relevance to the military context, including PTSD symptoms and infidelity. 3. To build knowledge to inform and revise future prevention efforts. We plan to achieve these aims using survey assessments with our existing sample over an additional five year period, building on a strong initial phase which addresses many key limitations in the literature on relationship education. The sample is large, relatively diverse, and comprised of married couples (many with children) rather than premarital couples (the focus of most prior research). The proposed study will be the strongest of its kind. Our measurement evaluates a wide range of important, understudied, relationship constructs. The stressors experienced by this sample related to factors such as deployment should provide more variance on key outcomes than typically seen in relationship education studies. The proposed renewal is significant in the ways that it can advance scientific knowledge on the long-term effects of relationship education and processes of marriage and divorce over time, with the potential to inform interventions for preventing or treating relationship distress.

描述（由申请人提供）：与 NICHD 的使命相一致，即支持关系动态、离婚和干预措施以促进强大和健康的家庭的研究，我们寻求继续进行社区层面的、受控的、纵向的和随机的传播试验，以验证由陆军牧师为陆军夫妇提供基于经验的关系教育计划。该干预措施是针对陆军夫妇的预防和关系增强计划（PREP）的改编，旨在针对与个人和家庭功能问题相关的婚姻困扰的风险和保护因素。我们目前的资助期限使我们能够评估干预后长达 3.5 年的干预效果，样本包括 662 对夫妇（343 对 PREP，319 对对照）。我们寻求继续该项目，以便在更长的时间内（干预后长达 8.5 年）测试影响和婚姻过程。较长的时间范围对于随着时间的推移对关系质量和个人调整的干预效果进行前瞻性评估很重要，并且更有能力检测随着时间的推移而产生的结果（例如离婚和不忠）的干预效果。我们更新的具体目标是： 1. 评估基于经验的关系教育计划对关系质量、关系稳定性和个人心理健康的长期影响。 2. 评估关系教育对与军事背景具体相关的结果的长期影响，包括创伤后应激障碍症状和不忠。 3. 积累知识，为未来的预防工作提供信息和修改。我们计划在接下来的五年内，利用现有样本的调查评估来实现这些目标，建立一个强有力的初始阶段，解决关系教育文献中的许多关键局限性。样本量很大，相对多样化，由已婚夫妇（许多有孩子）组成，而不是婚前夫妇（大多数先前研究的重点）。拟议的研究将是同类研究中最有力的。我们的测量评估了一系列重要的、未被充分研究的关系结构。该样本所经历的与部署等因素相关的压力源应该在关键结果上提供比关系教育研究中通常看到的更大的差异。拟议的更新具有重要意义，因为它可以推进关于关系教育以及结婚和离婚过程的长期影响的科学知识，并有可能为预防或治疗关系困扰的干预措施提供信息。