Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Adolescent Health Services; Preventive Medicine; Primary Heath Care; Family; Family Practice
• Interventions: Behavioral: Family Preventive Visit

• Registration Number: NCT01269086
• Lead Sponsor: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a systematic family assessment in adult preventive health visits increases the detection of risk factors in the spouse or adolescent child of the screened person.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-09
• Status Verified: 2010-10
• Study First Submitted: 2010-12-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-01-03
• Study First Posted: 2011-01-04
• Primary Completion: 2011-05
• Study Completion: 2011-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2011-05-26
• Last Update Posted: 2011-05-27

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

• Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years.

Exclusion Criteria

• Living with single parents.
• Does not accept participating in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Family Preventive Visit	Family Preventive Visit	Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Composite outcome: Family Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple and the adolescent child; and risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of marital or parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent/spouse.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Composite outcome: Adolescent Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, risk of suicide, risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent.
Composite outcome: Couple Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple, and the presence of marital relationship problems detected by the spouse.
Type of health plan for follow up	1 month	The health plan will be categorized in comprehensive bio-psycho-social health plans or only biomedical health plans.
Diagnostic accuracy of adults to diagnose risk factors in their spouse or adolescent child.	1 month	We will assess sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios of parents to detect risk factors in their spouse and child.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centro de Salud Familiar San Alberto Hurtado; 🇨🇱 Santiago, Chile