Linking Families Together Study- A Randomized Trial to Raise Parental Monitoring
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 318
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change from baseline in student 30 day alcohol use
研究概览
简要总结
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for students' academic performance and health behaviors. This study is based in middle schools around Los Angeles County a region with a high prevalence of teen risky health behaviors.
The aims of our study are:
- To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group.
- To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
- To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
详细描述
Despite parental monitoring and school involvement being among the most important protective factors leading to positive teen academic and health trajectories, few theoretically based rigorously evaluated interventions test strategies to support low income parents as their adolescents transition from middle to high school, a particularly risky time for students' academic and health behaviors.
In a successful pilot study, student's missing assignments information was communicated directly to parents. Intervention parents were nearly twice as likely to report their child not telling them enough about his or her school work than control parents. After just 6 months, intervention students had a 0.19 standard deviation increase in GPA over the control group and 0.20 standard deviation higher standardized math test score.
In the proposed study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of an intervention to improve parental monitoring and thus improve academic outcomes and reduce risky health behaviors. The adapted intervention will also include sessions for parents to build positive parent-child communication and awareness of school expectations.
We propose a randomized controlled trial with 2 arms examining whether providing parents detailed information on their child's academic and behavioral performance in school in combination with basic parenting support, increases parental monitoring for low-income, minority families. We hypothesize that better parental monitoring will lead to improved academic and behavioral performance. Using this design we can determine whether the impact of the information and parenting intervention is also protective of teens engaging in risky health behaviors. We will compare the experimental and control group parents to examine whether providing high-quality academic information to parents of middle school students increases parental monitoring, student academic performance, and teen health outcomes during middle school and beyond.
If the intervention boosts adolescent academic and health outcomes as hypothesized, the results of the proposed study offer schools low-cost strategies to simultaneously positively influence student academic and health trajectories. These findings have the potential to stimulate new research to improve health through innovative interventions to bolster parent teen relationships for gains accrued throughout the life span.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
盲法说明
Participants in the study do not know if they are in the intervention group.
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 11 Years 至 15 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •For adults, must be a parent/guardian of a student at a participating middle school
- •For minors, must be a student at a participating middle school
- •Must speak English or Spanish
- •Entering 7th grade in Fall 2014 at one of the middle schools participating in the study
排除标准
- 未提供
研究组 & 干预措施
LIFT (Parent information)
LIFT (Parent information): during their child's 7th and 8th grade years research staff will 1. communicate with parents about their child's academic and behavioral performance in school, roughly twice-monthly 2. invite parents to participate in a 2-hour parent support session to help teach parents to communicate better with their child and support better academic and behavioral performance in school
- students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year)
- parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year)
干预措施: LIFT (Parent Information) (Behavioral)
Usual care group
Usual care control group/No Intervention consists of neither communication of academic information to parents nor invitation to parent support sessions.
- students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year)
- parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year)
结局指标
主要结局
Change from baseline in student 30 day alcohol use
时间窗: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Student self report: During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have at least one drink of alcohol?
次要结局
- Change from baseline in student 30 day marijuana use(baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up))
- Change from baseline in parental monitoring(baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up))
- Change from baseline in student standardized test scores(baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up))
研究者
Dr. Mitchell Wong
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles