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NCT Number: NCT01269086

Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Primary Heath Care Adolescent Health Services Family Family Practice Preventive Medicine

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Centro de Salud Familiar San Alberto Hurtado

Santiago, Chile

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years.

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

Family Preventive Visit

Behavioral

Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Primary outcomes

  1. 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.

Secondary outcomes

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

Other

Collaborators

  • Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Solidaridad
  • Fundacion MAPFRE

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2010
Primary completion
2011
Study completion
2011
First posted
Jan 4, 2011
Registry last updated
May 27, 2011

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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