A randomized controlled trial to improve fathering among fathers with substance use disorders: Fathering in recovery intervention.

ABSTRACT: In early recovery for substance use disorders (SUDs), fathers may experience a desire to become more active in their role as a parent but may need support in using effective parenting strategies. Parent management training programs may be effective for fathers in recovery from SUD as they have been shown to improve parenting knowledge, self-efficacy, parenting practices, and child behavior, as well as decrease parent substance use. Using the Parent Management Training-Oregon model, we adapted a video-based program for text delivery to fathers in their first year of recovery from SUD, the fathering in recovery (FIR) intervention. In this pilot study, we randomized 41 fathers to control or 6 weeks of video content and three brief coaching calls and assessed outcomes in the parenting, child,

SUBMITTER: Cioffi CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840916 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature