Brian D Do
Biographic Data
| ID | 189456 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian D Do |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian D |
| FAMILY NAME | Do |
| SIGNATURE | DO B D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8039-848X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Economic Costs and Benefits of the Digital OurRelationship Program for Distressed Couples
Relationship distress is a prevalent issue with significant economic and societal consequences, including increased mental and physical health problems, decreased workplace productivity, and increased absences. Although couple therapy has been shown to improve relationship and individual well‐being, its high costs limit accessibility. Digital relationship interventions provide a cost‐effective alternative. However, limited research has assessed t…
Impact of a digital relationship intervention for jailed individuals
Not surprisingly, incarceration's extreme separation and stress have significant negative effects on romantic relationships. Unfortunately, few programs have been developed to improve jailed individuals' romantic relationship with their non‐incarcerated partner. The present study investigated the effectiveness of the individual version of the digital OurRelationship program for incarcerated individuals. The current study is a program evaluation o…
Preventing Postpartum Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Over the Internet
Does Web-Based Relationship Education Improve Sexual Intimacy? Initial Examination, Replication, and Exploration of Moderation in a Low-Income Sample
Navigating norms and expectations
Understanding the role of Latino culture in how couples cope with and communicate about cancer post-diagnosis is essential. This understanding will help strengthen the dyad by assisting with positive interpersonal support, which contributes to a better quality of life. These findings will also help providers assist dyads in navigating the cancer diagnosis and journey, helping to lessen the interpersonal stress and tensions that can occur after di…
Web-Based Relationship Education and Pornography-Related Behaviors
Online relationship education for help‐seeking low‐income couples
Low‐income couples are at increased risk for relationship instability and divorce. In response, online relationship education programs such as ePREP and OurRelationship have been developed to more easily reach this population. A previous trial indicated that these programs promote relationship functioning (Doss et al., 2020) and individual well‐being (Roddy et al., 2020a). However, given that these effects were notably larger than previous studie…
Introduction to special section
The focus of this special section is impact studies that were conducted as part of the Administration for Children and Families' Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative. This initiative has led to more than 2 million people receiving relationship education and fatherhood programs across the United States over the last two decades. Community organizations develop these programs, select their curricula and content, and run these prog…
Development and Validation of the Flexibility in Partner Perspectives Scale
Maintenance of Relationship and Individual Functioning Gains Following Online Relationship Programs for Low‐Income Couples
Initial evidence suggests that gains in relationship functioning from brief, web‐based programs are maintained through one year following the intervention; however, whether these results generalize to a low‐income sample is unclear. Furthermore, previous research from in‐person couple therapy suggests there may be different shapes of maintenance slopes for behavioral versus acceptance‐based techniques. This study contacted 668 individuals who enr…
Heteronormative Relationship Education for Same‐Gender Couples
In recent years, same‐gender group‐based relationship education has emerged as a viable intervention to prevent relationship distress among same‐gender couples. However, many of these programs are conducted in metropolitan areas and lack the ability to reach rural populations. The current study sought to investigate whether two wide‐reaching web‐based heteronormative relationship education programs could positively impact same‐gender relationship…
Trajectories of relationship and individual functioning among waitlisted couples for an online relationship intervention
To inform research and practice with distressed couples, the current study was designed to examine patterns of change among distressed, help‐seeking couples prior to receiving an intervention . Data from this study originate from 221 couples assigned to the waitlist control condition of a randomized controlled trial for couples seeking online help for their relationship. All couples self‐selected into the online program and agreed to withhold see…
Relational and psychological mediators of change in low‐income couples' perceived health
Experimental tests of the association between relationship functioning and physical health are limited. Although associations are hypothesized to be partially mediated through improved psychological functioning, tests are mostly limited to lab‐based studies. The present study evaluated relational and psychological mediators of change in perceived health in a sample of 742 low‐income couples (1,484 individuals) who participated in a randomized con…
Improved Child Mental Health Following Brief Relationship Enhancement and Co-Parenting Interventions During the Transition to Parenthood
The transition to parenthood has been identified as a significant relationship stressor. Many couples report declines in relationship satisfaction and difficulty with individual stress and co-parenting-problems that have been associated with both child temperament as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Several parenting and relationship interventions have been developed to buffer against these difficulties. In the current study, we report …
Relationship satisfaction, communication self-efficacy, and chronic fatigue syndrome-related fatigue
The transition to parenthood
Sexual Assault and Dyadic Relationship Satisfaction
Rates of child and adult sexual assault (SA) among women are staggering and place women at risk for intra- and interpersonal difficulties. However, the independent contributions of child and adult SA or the mechanisms of this risk are unknown. This study's goal was to examine the indirect effects of child and adult SA on women's own and partner's relationship functioning through their impact on women's mental health, emotional intimacy, and sexua…
Observed communication in couples two years after integrative and traditional behavioral couple therapy
To examine changes in observed communication after therapy termination in distressed couples from a randomized clinical trial.A total of 134 distressed couples were randomly assigned to either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998). Videotaped samples of each couple's interactions were coded from pre-therapy, post-therapy, and 2-year fol…
The effect of the transition to parenthood on relationship quality
This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years of marriage. Compared with prebirth levels and trajectories, parents showed sudden deterioration following birth on observed and self-reported measures of positive and negative aspects of relationship functioning. The deterioration in these variables was small to m…
Special Reviewers
The Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale
The effect of the transition to parenthood on relationship quality
This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years of marriage. Compared with prebirth levels and trajectories, parents showed sudden deterioration following birth on observed and self-reported measures of positive and negative aspects of relationship functioning. The deterioration in these variables was small to m…
The Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale
Observed communication in couples two years after integrative and traditional behavioral couple therapy
To examine changes in observed communication after therapy termination in distressed couples from a randomized clinical trial.A total of 134 distressed couples were randomly assigned to either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998). Videotaped samples of each couple's interactions were coded from pre-therapy, post-therapy, and 2-year fol…
Relationship satisfaction, communication self-efficacy, and chronic fatigue syndrome-related fatigue
Sexual Assault and Dyadic Relationship Satisfaction
Rates of child and adult sexual assault (SA) among women are staggering and place women at risk for intra- and interpersonal difficulties. However, the independent contributions of child and adult SA or the mechanisms of this risk are unknown. This study's goal was to examine the indirect effects of child and adult SA on women's own and partner's relationship functioning through their impact on women's mental health, emotional intimacy, and sexua…
The Multicultural Masculinity Ideology Scale
Special Reviewers
The effect of the transition to parenthood on relationship quality
This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years of marriage. Compared with prebirth levels and trajectories, parents showed sudden deterioration following birth on observed and self-reported measures of positive and negative aspects of relationship functioning. The deterioration in these variables was small to m…
Observed communication in couples two years after integrative and traditional behavioral couple therapy
To examine changes in observed communication after therapy termination in distressed couples from a randomized clinical trial.A total of 134 distressed couples were randomly assigned to either traditional behavioral couple therapy (TBCT; Jacobson & Margolin, 1979) or integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT; Jacobson & Christensen, 1998). Videotaped samples of each couple's interactions were coded from pre-therapy, post-therapy, and 2-year fol…
The transition to parenthood
Sexual Assault and Dyadic Relationship Satisfaction
Rates of child and adult sexual assault (SA) among women are staggering and place women at risk for intra- and interpersonal difficulties. However, the independent contributions of child and adult SA or the mechanisms of this risk are unknown. This study's goal was to examine the indirect effects of child and adult SA on women's own and partner's relationship functioning through their impact on women's mental health, emotional intimacy, and sexua…
Relationship satisfaction, communication self-efficacy, and chronic fatigue syndrome-related fatigue
Relational and psychological mediators of change in low‐income couples' perceived health
Experimental tests of the association between relationship functioning and physical health are limited. Although associations are hypothesized to be partially mediated through improved psychological functioning, tests are mostly limited to lab‐based studies. The present study evaluated relational and psychological mediators of change in perceived health in a sample of 742 low‐income couples (1,484 individuals) who participated in a randomized con…
Improved Child Mental Health Following Brief Relationship Enhancement and Co-Parenting Interventions During the Transition to Parenthood
The transition to parenthood has been identified as a significant relationship stressor. Many couples report declines in relationship satisfaction and difficulty with individual stress and co-parenting-problems that have been associated with both child temperament as well as emotional and behavioral problems. Several parenting and relationship interventions have been developed to buffer against these difficulties. In the current study, we report …
Maintenance of Relationship and Individual Functioning Gains Following Online Relationship Programs for Low‐Income Couples
Initial evidence suggests that gains in relationship functioning from brief, web‐based programs are maintained through one year following the intervention; however, whether these results generalize to a low‐income sample is unclear. Furthermore, previous research from in‐person couple therapy suggests there may be different shapes of maintenance slopes for behavioral versus acceptance‐based techniques. This study contacted 668 individuals who enr…
Heteronormative Relationship Education for Same‐Gender Couples
In recent years, same‐gender group‐based relationship education has emerged as a viable intervention to prevent relationship distress among same‐gender couples. However, many of these programs are conducted in metropolitan areas and lack the ability to reach rural populations. The current study sought to investigate whether two wide‐reaching web‐based heteronormative relationship education programs could positively impact same‐gender relationship…
Trajectories of relationship and individual functioning among waitlisted couples for an online relationship intervention
To inform research and practice with distressed couples, the current study was designed to examine patterns of change among distressed, help‐seeking couples prior to receiving an intervention . Data from this study originate from 221 couples assigned to the waitlist control condition of a randomized controlled trial for couples seeking online help for their relationship. All couples self‐selected into the online program and agreed to withhold see…
Online relationship education for help‐seeking low‐income couples
Low‐income couples are at increased risk for relationship instability and divorce. In response, online relationship education programs such as ePREP and OurRelationship have been developed to more easily reach this population. A previous trial indicated that these programs promote relationship functioning (Doss et al., 2020) and individual well‐being (Roddy et al., 2020a). However, given that these effects were notably larger than previous studie…
Introduction to special section
The focus of this special section is impact studies that were conducted as part of the Administration for Children and Families' Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood initiative. This initiative has led to more than 2 million people receiving relationship education and fatherhood programs across the United States over the last two decades. Community organizations develop these programs, select their curricula and content, and run these prog…
Development and Validation of the Flexibility in Partner Perspectives Scale
Navigating norms and expectations
Understanding the role of Latino culture in how couples cope with and communicate about cancer post-diagnosis is essential. This understanding will help strengthen the dyad by assisting with positive interpersonal support, which contributes to a better quality of life. These findings will also help providers assist dyads in navigating the cancer diagnosis and journey, helping to lessen the interpersonal stress and tensions that can occur after di…
Web-Based Relationship Education and Pornography-Related Behaviors
Does Web-Based Relationship Education Improve Sexual Intimacy? Initial Examination, Replication, and Exploration of Moderation in a Low-Income Sample
Impact of a digital relationship intervention for jailed individuals
Not surprisingly, incarceration's extreme separation and stress have significant negative effects on romantic relationships. Unfortunately, few programs have been developed to improve jailed individuals' romantic relationship with their non‐incarcerated partner. The present study investigated the effectiveness of the individual version of the digital OurRelationship program for incarcerated individuals. The current study is a program evaluation o…
Preventing Postpartum Anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Over the Internet
Economic Costs and Benefits of the Digital OurRelationship Program for Distressed Couples
Relationship distress is a prevalent issue with significant economic and societal consequences, including increased mental and physical health problems, decreased workplace productivity, and increased absences. Although couple therapy has been shown to improve relationship and individual well‐being, its high costs limit accessibility. Digital relationship interventions provide a cost‐effective alternative. However, limited research has assessed t…
Psychology (18 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Psychiatry (10 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Psychological intervention (7 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (6 works) · Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum (6 works)