Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

May 26, 2011 updated by: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
The purpose of this study is to determine whether a systematic family assessment in adult preventive health visits increases the detection of risk factors in the spouse or adolescent child of the screened person.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Anticipated)

300

Phase

  • Not Applicable

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

  • Chile
      • Santiago, Chile
        • Centro de Salud Familiar San Alberto Hurtado

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

  • Child
  • Adult
  • Older Adult

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Living with single parents.
  • Does not accept participating in the study.

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

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
No Intervention: Usual Care
Traditional care with no systematic assessment of family member´s health problems or risk factors.
Experimental: Family Preventive Visit
Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.
Behavioral: Family Preventive Visit
Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Composite outcome: Family Risk Factors
Time Frame: 1 month
The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple and the adolescent child; and risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of marital or parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent/spouse.
1 month

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Composite outcome: Couple Risk Factors
Time Frame: 1 month
The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple, and the presence of marital relationship problems detected by the spouse.
1 month
Composite outcome: Adolescent Risk Factors
Time Frame: 1 month
The composite outcome is conformed by: smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, risk of suicide, risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent.
1 month
Type of health plan for follow up
Time Frame: 1 month
The health plan will be categorized in comprehensive bio-psycho-social health plans or only biomedical health plans.
1 month
Diagnostic accuracy of adults to diagnose risk factors in their spouse or adolescent child.
Time Frame: 1 month
We will assess sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios of parents to detect risk factors in their spouse and child.
1 month

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Collaborators

Fundacion MAPFRE
Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Solidaridad

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Diego Garcia-Huidobro, MD, Family Medicine Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

September 1, 2010

Primary Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2011

Study Completion (Actual)

May 1, 2011

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 30, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 3, 2011

First Posted (Estimate)

January 4, 2011

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

May 27, 2011

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 26, 2011

Last Verified

October 1, 2010

More Information

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Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 00001

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