Strong Family Foundations Study

The Strong Family Foundations project is a randomized clinical trial for expecting families with heavy drinking fathers. This project is based on the Buffalo Infant and Child Development Study, a 20-year longitudinal study of children of fathers with alcohol problems recruited from the community. It highlighted the importance of parental sensitivity, couple functioning, fathers’ severity of alcohol problems and increasing risk or promoting resilience. The goal of the Strong Family Foundations project is to test an innovative preventive strategy by adapting an evidence-based preventive intervention for couples at the transition to parenthood –Family Foundations (FF)– to yield a multi-modal intervention that incorporates alcohol content into existing modules of FF and adding alcohol screening and brief intervention (SBI) for hazardous drinking. Aims are to examine the intervention effects on fathers’ heavy drinking, parent adjustment, couple functioning, and co-parenting; to examine these as mediators of intervention effects on parenting and infant regulation. This project is funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism with a grant ID of R01AA027708.

Check out the SFF page for more information. 

Recent Related Publications

Godleski, S.A., Dermen, K., Feinberg, M.A., Colder, C.R., Eiden, R.D. (2022, June). Couples intervention to promote co-parenting and reduce hazardous drinking during transition to parenthood. Paper presented at the Society for Prevention Research, Seattle, WA.

Ivanova, M.Y., Herrera, K.C., Godleski, S.A., Feinberg, M.E., Colder, C.R., Dermen, K., Sassaman, J., Eiden, R.D. (2022, June). Recruiting in times of COVID-19: Traditional vs. social media recruitment methods for a randomized clinical trial of first-time expecting parents. Poster presented at the Society for Prevention Research, Seattle, WA.