Family Foundations for Special Education Trial
For patients and families
In plain language
An automatic summary of structured registry data. It is an orientation aid, not a substitute for the official protocol or a physician assessment.
- What is being studied
- The protocol lists: Family Foundations for Special Education.
- Who it may be relevant to
- Registry conditions: Mental Health. Basic parameters: from 18 years · All.
- What needs checking
- Age, condition and sex are only basic indicators. Prior treatment, laboratory values and other mandatory requirements appear in the eligibility criteria below.
- Where it takes place
- United States
- Next step
- Save the trial, show it to the treating physician, and confirm current recruitment with the study center. Costs, documents and travel →
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Official title
Family Foundations for Special Education
Overview
The goal of this clinical trial is to assess the program's impact on parent self-efficacy and co-parental support around (a) accessing health and educational services and (b) parenting for co-parents of children with disabilities entering the Special Education system before their first Individualized Education Program (IEP) meeting. The main questions it aims to answer are: Does the program improve co-parenting support and coordination and parent efficacy in accessing services for and parenting their child? Does the program improve parent mental health, service access, engagement, and adherence? Does the program improve parenting quality? Does the program improve child adjustment (mental and behavioral health, academic engagement)? Researchers will compare pretest and posttest questionnaires from Treatment Group A with Control Group B to see if the program improves parent and child well-being, co-parenting relations, relations with service providers, ability to access services and meaningfully participate in IEP and other meetings. Participants will: * Complete pre- and post-test questionnaires * Treatment Group A will participate in 6 learning sessions, each 1 hour to 1½ hour long, over a 6-8 week period
Interventions
- Behavioral Family Foundations for Special Education
Families in the intervention group receive the new enhanced supports and participate in six private virtual learning sessions focused on understanding the special education system, improving communication, and enhancing collaboration as co-parents in the IEP process. Each session lasts 60-90 minutes and will be scheduled weekly according to the participants preferred schedule, including evenings and weekends. A workbook with supporting documents for each session will be sent to each participant
Primary outcome measures
- Coparenting Relationship Questionnaire [Time frame: From enrollment to the last learning session for intervention group, approximately 2 months after enrollment for the control group.]
- Parenting Sense of Competence Scale [Time frame: From pretest to two months post-intervention]
Eligibility criteria
Inclusion criteria
- Parents/parental figures who are over the age of 18, and are involved in childrearing together.
- Coparenting a child being evaluated for special education services
- Has not yet had their first IEP meeting.
- The target child must attend a Philadelphia elementary school (K-8).
- The target child must be the first child in the family to go through the IEP process.
- Co-parents must be fluent in English.
Criteria are shown verbatim from the registry (in English). Final eligibility is always assessed by the study center.
Healthy volunteers: No
Study design
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Model
- Parallel assignment
- Masking
- Open label
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
Study locations
United States · 1 center
- Public Health Management Corporation — Philadelphia
Identifiers
NCT: NCT07400497 · STUDY00025916 · 218-23