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

Purpose

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.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
HIV Infections Sexually Transmitted Diseases Pregnancy	Behavioral: Full Parent communication intervention Behavioral: Brief Parent Communication Intervention Behavioral: Control Parent Intervention	Phase I

MedlinePlus related topics:

AIDS Sexually Transmitted Diseases

U.S. FDA Resources

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Educational/Counseling/Training, Randomized, Open Label, Active Control, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study

Official Title:	Parents Matter!: Interventions to Promote Effective Parent-Child Communication About Sex and Sexual Risk Among African American Families

Further study details as provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Percent of teens who have initiated sexual intercourse at 3 years post intervention

Secondary Outcome Measures:

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

Estimated Enrollment:	2210
Study Start Date:	September 1999
Estimated Study Completion Date:	September 2006

Detailed Description:

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.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	9 Years to 12 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

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.

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00137943

Locations


United States, Arkansas
	University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
	Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72202

United States, Georgia
	Georgia State University
	Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30303
	University of Georgia
	Athens, Georgia, United States, 30602

Sponsors and Collaborators

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

University of Georgia

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Rex Forehand, Ph.D.	University of Vermont

More Information

Publications:

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.

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.

Publications indexed to this study:

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.

Study ID Numbers:	CDC-NCHSTP-2834, CCU417720
First Received:	August 26, 2005
Last Updated:	December 12, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00137943
Health Authority:	United States: Federal Government

Keywords provided by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

Parent-child communication

Primary prevention

sexual risk prevention

HIV

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Genital Diseases, Female

Virus Diseases

Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral

HIV Infections

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Genital Diseases, Male

Retroviridae Infections

Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes

Additional relevant MeSH terms:

RNA Virus Infections

Slow Virus Diseases

Immune System Diseases

Lentivirus Infections

Infection

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 05, 2008

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention University of Georgia
Information provided by:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00137943