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Strong Foundations: Intervening to Promote Co-Parenting and Reduce Father Hazardous Drinking in Expectant Parents

Award Number: R01AA027708
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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Strong Foundations: Intervening to Promote Co-Parenting and Reduce Father Hazardous Drinking in Expectant Parents - PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This is a multi-method, randomized efficacy trial to promote adjustment, co-parenting, and dyadic functioning among expecting couples with heavy drinking fathers and mothers who are light drinking/abstaining during pregnancy. We propose to harness the power of the transition to parenthood as a motivating event providing opportunity for lasting behavioral change. We will examine the efficacy of an innovative prevention strategy (mFF+) that adapts and integrates two evidence-based interventions: 1) Family Foundations (FF) - a universal intervention that has demonstrated meaningful, broad, and durable impacts in universal samples on parent mental health, parenting quality, and couple relations, as well as infant outcomes in multiple trials and 2) brief alcohol intervention (BI) for heavy drinking fathers. This modified intervention (mFF+) is a multi-modal intervention that incorporates alcohol-related content into existing modules of FF and adds a brief intervention for heavy drinking. Expecting couples (n = 180 couples) will be recruited during the first trimester of their pregnancy and randomized into either the mFF+ or control condition. The control condition (CC) will consist of brief advice regarding alcohol use (individualized) and group workshops on community resources and child development taken from Healthy Families intervention, thereby matching the context and delivery of mFF+ and controlling for attention. Existing FF modules will be modified to include alcohol content with discussions around alcohol effects on co-parenting and couple relationship. The adapted mFF+ sessions will be administered in a group format with 5 prenatal classes and 4 postnatal classes. The BI component will be delivered in the original individualized format across three meetings: after the baseline assessment, after the first FF group prenatal session, and approximately 1 month after birth. Our major goal is to examine the efficacy of this modified intervention, mFF+, in reducing fathers' drinking and couple conflict while promoting co-parenting quality, parental sensitivity, and child outcomes among families with heavy drinking fathers. There are two major aims: 1) to conduct a RCT of mFF+ with 180 couples (90 in each condition) with heavy drinking men and light drinking/abstaining women recruited in the first trimester of pregnancy. Parent reports and observational assessments of family functioning will be conducted at baseline (pretest), 6 months postpartum (posttest), and 12 months postpartum (follow-up); 2) to examine whether these impacts on drinking, co- parenting, adjustment, and couple dyadic functioning mediate the impact of mFF+ on parenting, and infant outcomes. This application will advance two major initiatives of the National Institutes of Health: effective intervention for problem alcohol use and prevention of children beginning and continuing to drink alcohol.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2025	2023	THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	6	4/30/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $407,102 )
2023	2023	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	6	4/25/2023	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$407,102
														Subtotal = $407,102

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $522,607 )
2022	2022	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	5	4/29/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$522,607
2022	2022	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	001	5	5/11/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $522,607

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $556,832 )
2021	2021	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	001	4	7/14/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2021	2021	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	4	4/23/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$556,832
														Subtotal = $556,832

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $527,864 )
2020	2020	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	002	3	4/14/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$527,864
2020	2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	1	2/14/2020	NEW	-$596,627
2020	2019	PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY, THE	201 OLD MAIN	UNIVERSITY PARK	PA	16802	CENTRE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	001	2	2/14/2020	CHANGE OF GRANTEE / TRAINING INSTITUTION / AWARDING INSTITUTION	$596,627
														Subtotal = $527,864

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $596,627 )
2019	2019	RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, THE	520 LEE ENTRANCE STE 211	AMHERST	NY	14228	ERIE	USA	Alcohol Research Programs	000	1	5/16/2019	NEW	$596,627
														Subtotal = $596,627

Grand Total All Awards = $2,611,032

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Strong Foundations: Intervening to Promote Co-Parenting and Reduce Father Hazardous Drinking in Expectant Parents

Award Number: R01AA027708

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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