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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
NA
1252 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2002-04-30
2009-03-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion has developed a worksite-based parenting program for parents of adolescents (grades 6-10) to improve parent-adolescent communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Specifically, the Center has developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens for parents with adolescent children to teach communication skills as well as basic facts about sex and other important adolescent issues. The program aims to help parents understand adolescent development and the changes in adolescents' thoughts and feelings about sexual issues and other risk behaviors. It helps parents develop skills for discussing sensitive but important topics with their adolescents, and for teaching their adolescents decision-making and problem-solving skills. The program also emphasizes the importance of parents knowing what is going on in their adolescents' lives (often called parental monitoring). Although parents feel a need for help on such issues, they often tend to be too busy to attend ongoing programs. Therefore, we bring the program to them at their worksite. The program involves groups of about 12-15 parents who meet for an hour at lunch-time once a week for eight consecutive weeks. We serve a free lunch during the sessions.
We are evaluating the effectiveness of the Talking Parents, Healthy Teens program primarily with confidential surveys of the participants before and after the program. We also ask participants' adolescents (who are not in the parenting program) to fill out surveys as well. Among parents who initially express interest in the program, we randomize parents after they complete their baseline survey into an intervention group that takes the parenting program and a control group that does not. Both of these groups fill out confidential surveys over the course of several years. After the study has been conducted at a number of worksites, the research team will statistically compare survey answers for the two groups to see how well the program works. The results of the evaluation will be submitted for publication in academic journals.
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SINGLE_GROUP
PREVENTION
NONE
Interventions
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Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based parenting program to help parents of 6th-10th graders learn to promote their adolescents' healthy sexual development. The program is administered in 8 weekly one-hour sessions during the lunch hour to groups of about 15 parents and focuses on parent-adolescent relationships and communication, with an emphasis on promoting sexual health and reducing sexual risk. It is led by a trained facilitator and assistant facilitator.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Parents must spend at least two days per week with their adolescents
* One parent per household/family
11 Years
70 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
NIH
University of California, Los Angeles
OTHER
RAND
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Principal Investigators
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Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
RAND and UCLA
Locations
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RAND
Santa Monica, California, United States
Countries
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References
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Schuster MA, Eastman KL, Fielding JE, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Breslow L, Franzoi LL, Kanouse DE. Promoting adolescent health: worksite-based interventions with parents of adolescents. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Mar;7(2):41-52. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200107020-00007.
Eastman KL, Corona R, Ryan GW, Warsofsky AL, Schuster MA. Worksite-based parenting programs to promote healthy adolescent sexual development: a qualitative study of feasibility and potential content. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Jun;37(2):62-9. doi: 10.1363/psrh.37.062.05.
Eastman KL, Corona R, Schuster MA. Talking parents, healthy teens: a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Oct;3(4):A126. Epub 2006 Sep 15.
Schuster MA, Corona R, Elliott MN, Kanouse DE, Eastman KL, Zhou AJ, Klein DJ. Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a new worksite based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2008 Jul 10;337:a308. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39609.657581.25.
Other Identifiers
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