Family STEPS: Family Check-Up+

Interventions that promote safe, stable, and nurturing relationships between caregivers and children are key to improving healthy family relationships, reducing child socioemotional and behaviour problems, and preventing child maltreatment. Although a broad range of parenting programs are currently implemented in communities across Ontario, most programs are inadequately evaluated, or else not evaluated at all using a pilot pragmatic Hybrid Type II individually randomized controlled trial conducted within routine service settings. The trial will enroll 300 families in Ontario, Canada. The evaluation is informed by the RE-AIM framework, with a primary emphasis on Reach and Implementation and secondary examination of Effectiveness, consistent with the objectives of a Hybrid Type II design.

NCT Number	NCT07433361
Lead Sponsor	McMaster University Collaborators: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), University of Exeter
Conditions	Child Behavior Problem
Enrollment	300 participants
Start Date	2026-04-01
Primary Completion	2028-12-31 (estimated)
Study Completion	2029-12-31 (estimated)
Updated on ClinicalTrials.gov	2026-02-25