# Prevention Research Center: Parenting Among Women Who Are Opioid Users

> **NIH NIH P50** · UNIVERSITY OF OREGON · 2020 · $79,621

## Abstract

Abstract
The Prevention Research Center: Parenting Among Women Who Are Opioid Users (PWO Center) has been
instituted to improve the well-being of individuals, families, and communities affected by the opioid crisis
through a focus on behavioral and neurocognitive systems that are underlying mechanisms common to both
addiction issues and parenting challenges. These efforts span the translational research cycle, from basic
science mechanisms to intervention trials to working with stakeholders to understand how best to scale-up
effective interventions into real-world policy and practice settings. This diversity supplement application is
embedded within Research Project 1 of the PWO Center, which involves the novel application of an
evidenced-based parenting intervention, Filming Interactions to Nurture Development (FIND), to enhance the
responsive caregiving of opioid-using mothers raising infants and/or young children. Pilot studies with high-risk
caregivers suggest that FIND increases responsiveness skills and decreases intrusive parenting. While
caregivers with high-adversity backgrounds historically have been observed to show differential (and often
lower) responses to these caregiver-based interventions, preliminary data suggests that caregivers with high
levels of self-reported adversity who participated in FIND reported decreased caregiver stress and increased
psychological involvement with their child, demonstrating that these caregivers may in fact benefit the most.
Pilot data also demonstrated positive changes in parenting identity after participating in FIND. The cognitive
effort necessary for responsive parenting requires the use of self-regulation, a process that relies upon the
dynamic valuation of available behavioral choices. New theories emphasize the role of identity in that valuation
process, recognizing that identity-relevant choices confer greater subjective value. Thus, interventions that
establish a link between targeted behavioral outcomes and participants’ positive self-concept will have greater
success in improving self-regulation and goal-directed behavior. The research proposed in this diversity
supplement has two aims. Aim one will examine the change in parental self-concept before and after
participating in FIND. Neural and behavioral data from a Parenting Self-Evaluation Task will be used to test the
degree to which FIND changes the way caregivers evaluate themselves as either developmentally supportive
or unsupportive. Aim two will explore the moderating roles of adverse exposures in predicting intervention
success. In addition to examining the relation between types of adverse experiences and parenting identity at
baseline, this project will tease apart the dimensionality of adverse experiences to predict with greater
precision the effects of the intervention through change in parenting self-concept and positive identity.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10163083
- **Project number:** 3P50DA048756-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
- **Principal Investigator:** Philip A Fisher
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $79,621
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2019-08-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10163083

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10163083, Prevention Research Center: Parenting Among Women Who Are Opioid Users (3P50DA048756-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10163083. Licensed CC0.

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