Reducing HIV Risks in African American Teens

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: HIV Infections
• Interventions: Behavioral: Healthy Futures parent education

• Registration Number: NCT00963963
• Lead Sponsor: Education Development Center, Inc.

Brief Summary

This study is developing and testing an innovative, parent education intervention, Preparing Our Sons and Daughters for Healthy Futures. This intervention aims to reduce HIV risk among African American and other Black youth living in high-poverty urban neighborhoods. Investigators, working with a community advisory board and focus groups of youth and parents, will develop a multi-year set of audio-CDs to promote positive parenting practices that support young adolescents in establishing healthy patterns of behavior. This parent education intervention will be tested in a field trial with families of 6th graders recruited from multiple schools in New York City. Baseline and annual follow up surveys will be conducted until youth enter high school. Families receiving the intervention will be compared to those assigned to either an attention-controlled print materials condition or a non-attention controlled condition. It is hypothesized that youth whose parents receive the intervention will delay sexual initiation and report fewer sexual risks, and that their parents will report more positive parenting practices.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2006-04
• Study First Submitted: 2009-08-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-08-21
• Study First Posted: 2009-08-24
• Primary Completion: 2013-04-30
• Study Completion: 2013-04-30
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-01-30
• Last Update Posted: 2018-02-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1200

Inclusion Criteria

• Attendance at selected schools
• 6th graders and their parents

Exclusion Criteria

• Non-English speaking

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
audio-CD parent education	Healthy Futures parent education	audio-CDs on parenting practices
attention-controlled parent print materials	Healthy Futures parent education	Booklets on adolescent sexuality and health
health promotion materials	Healthy Futures parent education	Parents receive health promotion booklets

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
youth risk behaviors	12 months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

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