The Family Man project evaluated the effectiveness of a new, brief, father-friendly online parenting program to improve father engagement, child behaviour and promote positive parent-child interactions via evidence-based strategies.
Findings of the randomised controlled trial showed that both fathers and mothers who received the Family Man intervention reported significantly less child behaviour problems, less ineffective parenting, parenting stress, disorganisation in the home, conflict over parenting between parents, as well as improved parent wellbeing and parenting confidence, when compared to those in the Waitlist group. The findings of this study are important as this is the first study to show that a very brief online father-friendly parenting program is effective for both fathers and mothers.
The Family Man project was funded by and collaborating with the Movember Foundation, a global men’s health charity from 2022-2024,
If you wished to read the full report, please access the open-access publication online.
Project Team:
- Professor Mark Dadds, Lead Chief Investigator, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
- Dr Lucy Tully, Chief Investigator, Senior Lecturer & Senior Supervising Psychologist
- Professor David Hawes, Chief Investigator, NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
- Adrienne Turnell, Senior Research Officer and Project Manager
- Bronte Morgan, Research Assistant
- Tiana Kittos, Research Assistant