Parent Education for Young Teen Females

Phase 2

Completed

• Conditions: Prevention
• Interventions: Behavioral: parent education

• Registration Number: NCT00966212
• Lead Sponsor: Education Development Center, Inc.

Brief Summary

The study has the potential to improve understanding of the link between early alcohol and sexual initiation and to provide a proven, selective, female-focused intervention for addressing these risks. The goal is to set young women on a course that protects their health and reduces the burden that problem drinking and HIV disease is taking on African American and Latino communities.

Detailed Description

The aims of this study are to to characterize and address the combined risks of early alcohol use and early sexual initiation within a population of urban African American and Latina adolescent females who are at high risk for HIV, AIDS, and other STI. Past research by the investigative team has documented that nearly 10% of females in our target population have initiated sex by fall of 7th grade and more than half have done so by spring of 10thgrade. Although alcohol use is more comparable with national figures, the combination of early alcohol and early sexual initiation is troubling, yet under-addressed by existing interventions. We will develop and test an intervention that builds upon a promising strategy for influencing adolescents: parent education. Three parenting mechanisms shown to influence adolescent risk behavior are targeted: parental monitoring, household rule setting, and communication. Informed by a community advisory board and a series of focus groups, a set of three audio-cds for parents of young adolescents will be developed. Through dramatic role-model stories, these CDs will help parents address alcohol prevention and the link between early alcohol use and sexual initiation and risk taking. Families and middle school daughters will then be enrolled into a randomized pilot test of the intervention's efficacy. Parent and student surveys will be conducted at baseline and 3-month post-intervention follow up to assess whether the intervention is beneficial in terms of promoting positive parenting practices, positive attitudes toward healthy behaviors, and reducing girls' risks.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2003-09
• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-08-25
• Study First Posted: 2009-08-26
• Primary Completion: 2009-09
• Study Completion: 2009-09
• Status Verified: 2012-06
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-06-29
• Last Update Posted: 2012-07-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 500

Inclusion Criteria

• 8th grade girls and parents at participating schools

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English speaking

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
print parent education	parent education	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
positive parenting practices	3 months
alcohol use	3 months
risk behaviors	3 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Education Development Center; 🇺🇸 Newton, Massachusetts, United States