Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, 1095 College Station Road, Athens, GA, 30602-4527, USA.
Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA.
Prev Sci. 2018 Oct;19(7):904-913. doi: 10.1007/s11121-018-0895-4.
This study presents results from a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program, a family-centered intervention designed to promote strong couple, coparenting, and parent-child relationships in two-parent African American families. A total of 346 African American couples with an early adolescent child participated; all families lived in rural, low-income communities in the southern USA. Intent-to-treat growth curve analyses involving three waves and spanning 17 months indicated that ProSAAF participants, compared with control participants, reported greater improvements in relationship communication, confidence, satisfaction, partner support, coparenting, and parenting. More than 80% of the couples attended all six of the in-home, facilitator-led sessions; costs to implement the program averaged $1739 per family. The findings inform the ongoing debate surrounding prevention programs for low-income and ethnic minority couples.
本研究呈现了一项名为“保护强大非裔美国家庭（ProSAAF）”计划的随机对照试验结果，这是一项以家庭为中心的干预措施，旨在促进双亲非裔美国家庭中夫妻关系、共同养育和亲子关系的稳固。共有 346 对有青春期早期孩子的非裔美国家庭参与；所有家庭都居住在美国南部农村、低收入社区。涉及三个阶段、历时 17 个月的意向性治疗增长曲线分析表明，与对照组相比，ProSAAF 参与者在关系沟通、信心、满意度、伴侣支持、共同养育和育儿方面的改善更为显著。超过 80%的夫妇参加了六次家庭主导的面谈；该项目的实施成本平均为每个家庭 1739 美元。这些发现为围绕低收入和少数族裔夫妇的预防计划的持续辩论提供了信息。
