A Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention for Latinos

The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a brief culturally appropriate and theory-based parental communication intervention designed to improve parent-adolescent sexual communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behavior.

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Key information

Conditions

HIV/AIDS Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Blood-Borne Infections Communicable Diseases Genital Diseases HIV Infections Immune System Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Infections Lentivirus Infections Pregnancy RNA Virus Infections Retroviridae Infections STD Sexually Transmitted Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Slow Virus Diseases Urogenital Diseases Virus Diseases

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation (DHDC)

Detroit, Michigan, 48216, United States

About this study

Latino adolescents are at high risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. Few individual and even fewer parent interventions have been developed to address this persistent problem. Parent communication interventions provide an opportunity to enhance individual adolescent based approaches. However, there is a need for theory and culture based interventions focused on Latino parents. The program implemented in this study was designed for parents, to indirectly help reduce the health risks of their adolescents, including unintended pregnancy and STDs, including HIV/AIDS. The study has three aims regarding the examination of whether the computer based parental communication intervention is 1) associated with a greater increase in parents' comfort with, and quantity of communication; 2) associated with a greater increase in adolescents' intentions to abstain from sex and/or avoid unprotected intercourse and decreased self-reported intercourse and unprotected intercourse; and 3) feasible and acceptable to Spanish dominant Latino parents and their adolescent children.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Latino parents who have adolescents 14 to 17 years of age
Spanish dominant or bilingual

Treatment and study plan

Computer-based parent-adolescent HIV communication

Behavioral

The parental intervention consists of a 60 minute computer-based program delivered in two sessions (one per week). The DVD ROM provides information about adolescent sexual risk and HIV prevention, strategies to support sexual specific communication and parent-adolescent communication in general. The computer based education program is provided in Spanish.

Other names: Cuidalos

Primary outcomes

general parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent sexual risk communication, comfort with communication

Time frame: pretest, 1 week, 3 months

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Michigan

Other

Collaborators

National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)

Registry information

Important dates

Study start: 2007
Primary completion: 2008
Study completion: 2010
First posted: Mar 10, 2010
Registry last updated: Aug 31, 2016

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