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

September 26, 2012 updated by: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

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.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment

2210

Phase

  • Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • Arkansas
      • Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, 72202
        • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
    • Georgia
      • Athens, Georgia, United States, 30602
        • University of Georgia
      • Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30303
        • Georgia State University

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

9 years to 12 years (Child)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

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.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

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

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
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

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Collaborators

University of Georgia

Investigators

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

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 1999

Primary Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2006

Study Completion (Actual)

September 1, 2006

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 26, 2005

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 26, 2005

First Posted (Estimate)

August 30, 2005

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

September 27, 2012

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

September 26, 2012

Last Verified

September 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • CDC-NCHSTP-2834
  • CCU417720

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