Promoting Co-Parenting and Reducing Hazardous Drinking in New Families

This study aims to understand if a parenting program that helps couples learn to parent as a team and maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as maintaining safer levels of alcohol use, promotes parent and child health and well-being. Programs will be delivered prenatally and postnatally and will include both group classes and individualized sessions. A comprehensive assessment is administered during pregnancy and then at 6 and 12 months of child age. It is hypothesized that targeting intervention during the naturally motivating transition to parenthood may not only provide opportunities for long lasting behavioral change for parents, but also initiate a cascade of protective processes that ultimately reduce risk for negative emotional and behavioral outcomes for children.

NCT Number	NCT04441307
Lead Sponsor	Penn State University Collaborators: Rochester Institute of Technology, University at Buffalo, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Conditions	Parenting, Parent-Child Relations, Drinking, Alcohol, Adjustment
Enrollment	368 participants
Start Date	2021-01-25
Primary Completion	2026-01-19 (estimated)
Study Completion	2026-07-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-08-07