None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Dads Tuning in to Kids (Dads TIK) is an evidence-based parenting program that helps fathers to understand and regulate their own emotions and to use emotion coaching with their children to promote children’s competence. Dads TIK has been selected as one of several programs to be delivered as part of the Movember 'Scaling What Works' project, with a focus on improving men's mental health outcomes. As part of the ‘Scaling What Works’ project, 40 facilitators are trained to deliver Dads TIK to approximately 800 ‘hard to reach’ fathers. This research specifically aims to explore the acceptability, effectiveness, and adaptability of Dads TIK in this ‘real world’ context. Outcomes of interest include the impact of Dads TIK on men’s health by strengthening connections between fathers and their children, supporting emotional competence, improving fathers' responses to their children's emotions and improving father’s wellbeing in order to reduce mental health problems. More broadly, the project aims to contribute to cultural change where emotions become more acceptable for men.
Interventions
This is a dissemination trial where facilitators from 40 services will deliver the Dads Tuning in to Kids (Dads TIK) parenting program. All participants receive the intervention: there is no control condition.
Facilitators (across disciplines) from a range of services are trained and supervised to delivery the 7-session group program to fathers of 3 to 12 year old children attending their services. Training involved 13.5 hours of online Tuning in to Kids training over Zoom, followed by 4.5 hou
This is a dissemination trial where facilitators from 40 services will deliver the Dads Tuning in to Kids (Dads TIK) parenting program. All participants receive the intervention: there is no control condition. Facilitators (across disciplines) from a range of services are trained and supervised to delivery the 7-session group program to fathers of 3 to 12 year old children attending their services. Training involved 13.5 hours of online Tuning in to Kids training over Zoom, followed by 4.5 hours of Dads TIK training provided 1-2 months prior to delivery of the first Dads TIK groups. Facilitators then attended a 1 hour adaptation session and 3 x 1 hour supervision sessions during the period of program delivery. Training, adaptation and supervision is provided by experienced TIK trainers. The program is delivered by two facilitators in weekly, 2-hour group sessions, either face to face or online. Program adaptations are able to be made to ensure Dads TIK can effectively reach fathers who may not attend a parenting service. Facilitators use a manualised delivery and fathers are given handout materials, either the standard package (Wilson et al., 2015) or a simplified English (created specifically for this study for fathers with low literacy) or translated into the relevant language. The program has skills for responding using emotion coaching with children as well as skills for fathers to understand and regulate their own emotions. Fidelity checklists are completed after each session by facilitators. The program was delivered either face-t0-face or online using either the 7 x 2 hour Wilson, K.R., Havighurst, S.S. & Harley, A.E. (2015). Dads Tuning in to Kids: Program Manual. The University of Melbourne.
Sponsors
The University of Melbourne
Study design
Allocation
Non-randomised trial
Intervention model
Single group
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
Male
Age
18 Years to 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Participant inclusion was being a father of a 3-12 year old child. However, the services that delivered the intervention were often targeting hard to reach fathers: culturally and linguistically diverse settings, court ordered/justice clients, inmates in prisons, Indigenous community services, fly-in-fly out fathers (mining areas) etc.
Exclusion criteria
None.
Outcome results
None listed