Parents Matter!: Interventions to Promote Effective Parent-Child Communication

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1

Total Enrollment

2210 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

1999-09-30

Study Completion Date

2006-09-30

Brief Summary

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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.

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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HIV Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases Pregnancy

Keywords

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Parent-child communication Primary prevention sexual risk prevention HIV

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Interventions

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Full Parent communication intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Brief Parent Communication Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Control Parent Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

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.

Minimum Eligible Age

9 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

12 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Rex Forehand, Ph.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Vermont

Locations

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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Little Rock, Arkansas, United States

Site Status

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia, United States

Site Status

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Forehand R, Gound M, Kotchick BA, Armistead L, Long N, Miller KS. Sexual intentions of black preadolescents: associations with risk and adaptive behaviors. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Mar;37(1):13-8. doi: 10.1363/psrh.37.13.05.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

PMID: 15888398 (View on PubMed)

Forehand, R., Miller, K.S., Armistead, L., Kitchick, B.A., & Long, N. (2004). Parents Matter! Program: An Introduction. Journal of Child and Families Studies, 13, 1-3.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Dittus, P., Miller, K.S., Kotchick, B.A., & Forehand, R. (2004). Why parents matter: The conceptual basis for a community-based HIV prevention program prevention program for African American youth. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 5-20.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Ball, J., Pelton, J., Forehand, R., Long, N., & Wallace, S. (2004). Methodological overview of the Parents Matter! Program St. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 21-34.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Secrest, L.A., Lassiter, S.L., Armistead, L.P., Wyckoff, S.C., Johnson, J., Williams, W.B., & Kotchick, B.A. (2004). The Parents Matter! Program: Building a successful investigator community partnership. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 35-45.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Long, N., Austin, B., Gound, M., Kelly, A., Gardner, A., Dunn, R., Harris, & Miller, K. (2004). The Parents Matter! Program Interventions: Content and the facilitation process. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 47-65.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Armistead, L., Clark, H., Barber, N., Dorsey, S., Hughley, J., Favors, M., & Wycoff, S. (2004). Participant retention in the Parents Matter! Program: Strategies and outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 67-80.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Murry, V.M., Kotchick, B.A., Wallace, S., Ketchen, B., Eddings, K., Heller, L., & Collier, I. (2004). Race, culture and ethnicity: Implications for a community intervention. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 81-99.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Long, N., Miller, K.S., Jackson, L.C., Lindner, G.K., Hunt, R.G., Robinson, A.D., Goldsby, W.D., & Armistead, L.P. (2004). Lessons learned from the Parents Matter! Program. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 101-112.

Reference Type BACKGROUND

Forehand R, Armistead L, Long N, Wyckoff SC, Kotchick BA, Whitaker D, Shaffer A, Greenberg AE, Murry V, Jackson LC, Kelly A, McNair L, Dittus PJ, Lin CY, Miller KS. Efficacy of a parent-based sexual-risk prevention program for African American preadolescents: a randomized controlled trial. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2007 Dec;161(12):1123-9. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.161.12.1123.

Reference Type DERIVED

PMID: 18056556 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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CCU417720

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

CDC-NCHSTP-2834

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

Parents Matter!: Interventions to Promote Effective Parent-Child Communication

Study Results

Basic Information

Brief Summary

Detailed Description

Conditions

Keywords

Study Design

Interventions

Full Parent communication intervention

Brief Parent Communication Intervention

Control Parent Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

Sponsors

University of Georgia

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Responsible Party

Principal Investigators

Rex Forehand, Ph.D.

Locations

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

University of Georgia

Georgia State University

Countries

References

Forehand R, Gound M, Kotchick BA, Armistead L, Long N, Miller KS. Sexual intentions of black preadolescents: associations with risk and adaptive behaviors. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Mar;37(1):13-8. doi: 10.1363/psrh.37.13.05.

Forehand, R., Miller, K.S., Armistead, L., Kitchick, B.A., & Long, N. (2004). Parents Matter! Program: An Introduction. Journal of Child and Families Studies, 13, 1-3.

Dittus, P., Miller, K.S., Kotchick, B.A., & Forehand, R. (2004). Why parents matter: The conceptual basis for a community-based HIV prevention program prevention program for African American youth. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 5-20.

Ball, J., Pelton, J., Forehand, R., Long, N., & Wallace, S. (2004). Methodological overview of the Parents Matter! Program St. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 21-34.

Secrest, L.A., Lassiter, S.L., Armistead, L.P., Wyckoff, S.C., Johnson, J., Williams, W.B., & Kotchick, B.A. (2004). The Parents Matter! Program: Building a successful investigator community partnership. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 35-45.

Long, N., Austin, B., Gound, M., Kelly, A., Gardner, A., Dunn, R., Harris, & Miller, K. (2004). The Parents Matter! Program Interventions: Content and the facilitation process. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 47-65.

Armistead, L., Clark, H., Barber, N., Dorsey, S., Hughley, J., Favors, M., & Wycoff, S. (2004). Participant retention in the Parents Matter! Program: Strategies and outcomes. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 67-80.

Murry, V.M., Kotchick, B.A., Wallace, S., Ketchen, B., Eddings, K., Heller, L., & Collier, I. (2004). Race, culture and ethnicity: Implications for a community intervention. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 81-99.

Long, N., Miller, K.S., Jackson, L.C., Lindner, G.K., Hunt, R.G., Robinson, A.D., Goldsby, W.D., & Armistead, L.P. (2004). Lessons learned from the Parents Matter! Program. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 13, 101-112.

Other Identifiers

CCU417720

CDC-NCHSTP-2834