Parents Matter is a community-based project whose goal 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 Sexually Transmitted Disease Pregnancy	Behavior: Full Parent communication intervention  Behavior: Brief Parent Communication Intervention  Behavior: Control Parent Intervention	Phase I

Further Study Details: 

Primary Outcomes: Percent of teens who have initiated sexual intercourse at 3 years post intervention
Secondary Outcomes: Incresae 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
Expected Total Enrollment:  2210

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 consisting 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.

Ages Eligible for Study:  9 Years   -   12 Years,  Genders Eligible for Study:  Both

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

The eligibility criteria for the parent-child dyad are as follows:

1. The parent or guardian must be African-American
2. 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.
3. 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.

4. The parent or guardian and the child must both speak English.

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   Exclusion Criteria:

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

Study chairs or principal investigators

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

Study ID Numbers:  CDC-NCHSTP-2834; CCU417720
Last Updated:  August 29, 2005
Record first received:  August 26, 2005
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:  NCT00137943
Health Authority: United States: Federal Government
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on 2005-08-30