A Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention for Latinos

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: STD; Pregnancy; HIV/AIDS
• Interventions: Behavioral: Computer-based parent-adolescent HIV communication

• Registration Number: NCT01084421
• Lead Sponsor: University of Michigan

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a brief culturally appropriate and theory-based parental communication intervention designed to improve parent-adolescent sexual communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behavior.

Detailed Description

Latino adolescents are at high risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. Few individual and even fewer parent interventions have been developed to address this persistent problem. Parent communication interventions provide an opportunity to enhance individual adolescent based approaches. However, there is a need for theory and culture based interventions focused on Latino parents. The program implemented in this study was designed for parents, to indirectly help reduce the health risks of their adolescents, including unintended pregnancy and STDs, including HIV/AIDS. The study has three aims regarding the examination of whether the computer based parental communication intervention is 1) associated with a greater increase in parents' comfort with, and quantity of communication; 2) associated with a greater increase in adolescents' intentions to abstain from sex and/or avoid unprotected intercourse and decreased self-reported intercourse and unprotected intercourse; and 3) feasible and acceptable to Spanish dominant Latino parents and their adolescent children.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-09
• Primary Completion: 2008-09
• Study First Submitted: 2010-03-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-03-09
• Study First Posted: 2010-03-10
• Study Completion: 2010-06
• Status Verified: 2016-08
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-08-29
• Last Update Posted: 2016-08-31

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 260

Inclusion Criteria

• Latino parents who have adolescents 14 to 17 years of age
• Spanish dominant or bilingual

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Computer based intervention	Computer-based parent-adolescent HIV communication	Participants receive content about adolescent sexual risk and HIV prevention, strategies to support sexual specific communication and parent-adolescent communication in general.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
general parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent sexual risk communication, comfort with communication	pretest, 1 week, 3 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC); 🇺🇸 Detroit, Michigan, United States