SMART Couples Research Studies
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ELEVATE Program: STREAMS Implementation Study #1
Strengthening Relationship Education and Marriage Services (STREAMS) focuses on healthy marriage and relationship education for single adults, adult couples, and high school aged youth. Learn more about the STREAMS evaluation.
ELEVATE Program: STREAMS Implementation Study #2
Providing Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Programs Virtually: Lessons from a Case Study of the ELEVATE Program in Florida
ELEVATE Program: STREAMS Implementation Study #3
Text Message Reminders and Their Impact on Attendance at Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education Workshops
This study’s findings reveal that affectionate communication (given and received) positively predicted relationship satisfaction indirectly via the serial mediation of partner commitment and couple quality.
Before You Tie the Knot (BYTK): Impacts, Outcomes, and Lessons Learned from a Federally-Funded Premarital Education Case Study
Clearly-evident effect size changes were found for program participants’ (n= 1285) implementation of knowledge and skills related to relationship quality covered in the BYTK training over a five-week period.
Lessons from the Field. Continuous Quality Improvement: a Multiyear HMRF Case Study of Best Practices in Outreach Program Excellence
Processes and outcomes of developing continuous quality improvement (CQI) procedures for the multiyear, multimillion-dollar SMART relationship enhancement HMRF education program are described and documented.
The Positive Behavioral Management Strategies Program (PBMS) for Parents, Teachers, and Caregivers: Impacts and Outcomes
The PBMS program (n=624) showed positive outcomes to assist participants to increase their knowledge and skills in managing child behavior successfully from before to after the intervention for all twenty-two variables studied.
