Innovative Family Prevention With Latino Siblings in Disadvantaged Settings
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 5 - Any |
| Updated: | 10/17/2018 |
| Start Date: | September 29, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 2022 |
| Contact: | Adriana J Umana-Taylor, PhD |
| Email: | adriana_umana-taylor@gse.harvard.edu |
| Phone: | 617.384.5047 |
The current study is a randomized intervention trial that tests the efficacy of a
family-focused sibling relationship promotion program. The study includes a treatment group
and a contact-equivalent attention control condition with 288 sibling dyads and data
collection with target parents, target sibling dyads, and teachers at three time points
(pre-test, post-test, and 18-month follow-up). Data will be collected using a three-cohort
design with 96 families in each of the three cohorts.
family-focused sibling relationship promotion program. The study includes a treatment group
and a contact-equivalent attention control condition with 288 sibling dyads and data
collection with target parents, target sibling dyads, and teachers at three time points
(pre-test, post-test, and 18-month follow-up). Data will be collected using a three-cohort
design with 96 families in each of the three cohorts.
The proposed project tests the efficacy of a family-focused program. This innovative program
is focused on sibling relationships and parenting of siblings as synergistic targets of
change to promote positive interpersonal family dynamics and parent and youth psychosocial
and behavioral health and well-being. This translational effort builds on strong theoretical
and empirical premises including a successful pilot study (ASU SIBS Program). Using a
rigorous design and measurement, aims are to: (a) test the efficacy of SIBS, delivered via 12
weekly afterschool sibling sessions and 3 family nights in the familiar elementary school
setting, versus a contact-equivalent attention control condition. Mexican-origin sibling
dyads (5th graders and younger siblings; N = 288 dyads) and their parents will be recruited
from economically disadvantaged elementary schools and randomly assigned within school to
intervention or contact-equivalent attention control conditions. Assessments will be
conducted at pre-test, post-test, and 18-month follow-up. Program effects will be tested on
primary and secondary outcomes, including sibling relationship quality (i.e., warmth and
negativity), sibling relationship skills, children's efficacy (social, emotional), children's
internalizing symptoms, parents' stress and depressive symptoms, parent-child warmth and
conflict, and family cohesion. Findings will advance prevention science by identifying an
efficacious program that capitalizes on cultural assets to promote positive family dynamics
and psychosocial well-being among Latinos, including by incorporating daily measurements of
intervention targets (sibling relationship skills) to identify mechanisms underlying program
effects.
is focused on sibling relationships and parenting of siblings as synergistic targets of
change to promote positive interpersonal family dynamics and parent and youth psychosocial
and behavioral health and well-being. This translational effort builds on strong theoretical
and empirical premises including a successful pilot study (ASU SIBS Program). Using a
rigorous design and measurement, aims are to: (a) test the efficacy of SIBS, delivered via 12
weekly afterschool sibling sessions and 3 family nights in the familiar elementary school
setting, versus a contact-equivalent attention control condition. Mexican-origin sibling
dyads (5th graders and younger siblings; N = 288 dyads) and their parents will be recruited
from economically disadvantaged elementary schools and randomly assigned within school to
intervention or contact-equivalent attention control conditions. Assessments will be
conducted at pre-test, post-test, and 18-month follow-up. Program effects will be tested on
primary and secondary outcomes, including sibling relationship quality (i.e., warmth and
negativity), sibling relationship skills, children's efficacy (social, emotional), children's
internalizing symptoms, parents' stress and depressive symptoms, parent-child warmth and
conflict, and family cohesion. Findings will advance prevention science by identifying an
efficacious program that capitalizes on cultural assets to promote positive family dynamics
and psychosocial well-being among Latinos, including by incorporating daily measurements of
intervention targets (sibling relationship skills) to identify mechanisms underlying program
effects.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Target child has to be a 5th grader
- Target child has to be of Latino/Hispanic heritage
- Target child has to have a younger sibling enrolled in the same school in the 1st
through 4th grade
- Target child and younger sibling have to be enrolled students in a participating
elementary school.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Enrollment in a self-contained special education setting
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