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Randomized Controlled Trial
. 2022 Oct;53(5):964-979.
doi: 10.1007/s10578-021-01181-y. Epub 2021 May 7.

A Trauma-Informed, Family-Centered, Virtual Home Visiting Program for Young Children: One-Year Outcomes

Catherine Mogil  1 , Nastassia Hajal  2 , Hilary Aralis  2 , Blair Paley  2 , Norweeta G Milburn  2 , Wendy Barrera  2 , Cara Kiff  3 , William Beardslee  4 , Patricia Lester  2
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Randomized Controlled Trial

A Trauma-Informed, Family-Centered, Virtual Home Visiting Program for Young Children: One-Year Outcomes

Catherine Mogil et al. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2022 Oct.

Abstract

Military-connected families face many challenges associated with military life transitions, including deployment separations. We report on a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of Families OverComing Under Stress-Early Childhood (FOCUS-EC) delivered through an in-home, virtual telehealth platform. FOCUS-EC is a trauma-informed, family-centered preventive intervention designed to promote family resilience and well-being. Military-connected families with 3- to 6-year-old children (194 mothers; 155 fathers; 199 children) were randomized to FOCUS-EC or an online education condition. Parent psychological health symptoms, child behavior, parenting, and parent-child relationships were examined by parent-report and observed interaction tasks for up to 12 months. Longitudinal regression models indicated that FOCUS-EC families demonstrated significantly greater improvements than online education families in parent-reported and observational measures of child behavior, parenting practices, and parent-child interaction, as well as greater reductions in parent posttraumatic stress symptoms. Findings provide support for the benefit of a virtually-delivered preventive intervention for military-connected families.

Keywords: Family resilience; Family-centered prevention; Military-connected families; Parenting; Telehealth.

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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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FOCUS-EC session overview
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CONSORT diagram. Families were determined to have completed each respective assessment if at least one family member completed the assessment
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