- PI: Szanton, S. Project PI: Gross, D. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – Supporting Caregivers of Young Children with Disabilities. (Finished 05/2023)
- Grant: RTGE19000007 | Funder: NIDILRR
- The goal of this project was to create and pilot test a feasible and effective adaptation of the CPP (CPP-I) for individual use with caregivers of young children (2-8 years) with social-emotional, behavioral, and developmental disabilities.
- PI: Herbell, K. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – Co-developing a tailored parent training for adolescents who have accessed residential treatment. (Finished 05/2022)
- This study laid the groundwork for an intervention that helps adolescents maintain treatment gains in the community by augmenting and testing a web-based parent training with tailored support to prepare parents for the reintegration of their adolescents in the home.
- PI: Herbell, K. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – Determining the influence of parent mental health on two generation outcomes in families with children in residential treatment. (Finished 05/2021)
- The purpose of this study was to test relationships among contextual factors (parent, child, residential treatment), parents’ mental health symptoms (depression, anxiety, PTSD, perceived stress), and two-generation outcomes (positive parenting practices, children’s mental, emotional, and behavioral symptoms).
- PI: Herbell, K. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – Feasibility and acceptability of a maltreatment prevention intervention for children in psychiatric residential treatment. (Finished 03/2021)
- This study tested the feasibility and acceptability of the web-based Parenting Wisely program for parents of adolescents residing in RT
- PI: Gross, D. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – The Chicago Parent Program: Improving the Lives of Young Children in Poverty. (Finished 12/2020)
- The overarching goal of this project was to develop implementation infrastructure to support wide scale dissemination and sustainability of CPP and evaluate these supports in four communities in Detroit, MI; Columbus, OH; Philadelphia, PA; and thousands of families every year.
- PI: Greene, M. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – ezPreemie Parent: A Feasibility Study of the ezParent Program for Parents of Former VLBW Infants. (Finished 2019)
- The purpose of this feasibility study was to evaluate the adaptation and acceptability of the ezParent program, with the addition of weekly coaching calls—for parents of former very low birthweight infants in their second year of life.
- PI: Breitenstein, S. – Parent Training in Pediatric Primary Care: A Self-Directed Tablet-Based Approach. (Finished 06/2019)
- Grant: R01 HS024273 | Funder: AHRQ
- The aims of this hybrid 1 implementation trial were to test the implementation, efficacy, and cost effectiveness of a tablet-based parent training program in pediatric primary care.
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- PI: Julion, W. Co-I: Breitenstein, S. – The African American Non-Resident Fatherhood Program. (Finished 05/2019)
- Grant: 5R01NR011182-02 | Funder: NIH/NINR
- The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of the Building Bridges to Fatherhood intervention, a program for African American non-resident fathers of young children to improve father involvement with their children.
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- PI: Breitenstein, S. – Digital Delivery of a Parent Training Program for Urban, Low-Income Parents. (Finished 08/2015)
- Grant: #70316 | Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar Award
- This aim of this study was to develop and test the effects of a digital delivery strategy of an evidence-based parent training program using a tablet platform in a sample of low-income ethnic minority parents of young children recruited from a primary care setting.