Parents Matter!: Interventions to Promote Effective Parent-Child Communication About Sex and Sexual Risk Among African American Families
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 2,210
- 试验地点
- 6
- 主要终点
- Percent of teens who have initiated sexual intercourse at 3 years post intervention
研究概览
简要总结
Parents Matter is a community-based project whose goal it is to develop and test an intervention designed to promote effective parent-child communication about sexuality in order to promote sexual health among adolescents.
详细描述
Participants in the intervention are African American parents or guardians who have children in the 4th or 5th grade that are 12 or younger. Recruitment was done through schools, housing authorities, community based organizations, and churches. Participants were randomly assigned to participate in one of three interventions delivered by community based interventionists. The enhanced sexuality communication intervention consists of five 2.5 hour sessions conducted over 5 weeks with booster sessions at 12 and 24 months post-intervention. The full sexual communication intervention focuses on general parenting skills and sexual communication skills using a variety of presentation modalities: group discussion, video, and role-plays. The brief sexual communication intervention consists of a single 2.5 hour session in which parents are provided with information on general parenting skills and sexual communication skills. Thus, this intervention seeks to provide the same information as the full sexual communication intervention but in a condensed format with little group participation. The control intervention is a single 2.5 hour session focusing on general child health issues such as diet and exercise rather than parenting and sexual communication.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 9 Years 至 12 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •The eligibility criteria for the parent-child dyad are as follows:
- •The parent or guardian must be African-American
- •The parent or guardian must be the primary caregiver for a child in 4th or 5th grade who is 12 or younger at the time of the 1st assessment.
- •The parent or guardian and the child must have lived together continuously for at least the past 3 years and the child must spend most nights (5 or more) with the parent or guardian.
- •The parent or guardian and the child must both speak English.
排除标准
- 未提供
结局指标
主要结局
Percent of teens who have initiated sexual intercourse at 3 years post intervention
次要结局
- Increase in parental knowledge at 1 year
- Increase in parental skills at 1 year
- Increase in parental comfort communicating at 1 year
- Increase in parental confidence communicating at 1 year