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NCT Number: NCT01442753

Family-Skills Training to Prevent Tobacco and Other Substance Use in Latino Youth

The goal of this project is to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-based tobacco use prevention intervention directed at immigrant Latino parents of middle school aged youth as delivered in partnership with seven community organizations. The primary outcomes of the study are youth susceptibility to tobacco use, and changes in parenting practices among the parents of the youth. The planning, initiation, and delivery of the intervention will occur in collaboration with community organizations that have identified this project as important to the families they serve. Though the collaboratively designed training curriculum has been successfully tested and a study design for the current project established, a substantive development period for this project will allow the research team and collaborating organizations to consider key aspects of design and delivery.

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Key information

Conditions

Tobacco Use Disorder Alcohol Drinking Alcohol Use Disorder Alcohol-Related Disorders Alcoholism Behavior Chemically-Induced Disorders Drinking Behavior Drug Abuse Drug Use Disorder Mental Disorders Smoking Substance-Related Disorders

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

University of Minnesota

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55414, United States

About this study

This study design is a randomized (at the level of the family) controlled trial (RCT), with a delayed treatment condition for the control group. Participants will be enrolled from community agencies known and trusted within the Latino community including two clinics, a school, three social service agencies and a University of Minnesota Extension site that are likely end-users of the intervention programming.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Parent Inclusion
  • Either mother or father born in Latin American country
  • Speaks Spanish
  • Parent willing to give consent for self & youth
  • Youth Inclusion
  • Age 10-14 years
  • Speak English or Spanish
  • Youth willing to give assent

Exclusion criteria

  • Parent Exclusion
  • Not meeting inclusion criteria
  • Past participant Padres Informados parenting program

Treatment and study plan

Family-Skills Training

Behavioral

Sessions will be divided between self-reflection, didactics, and skill-building exercises all aimed at developing strong parenting practices and facilitating relationship building between parents and youth.

Primary outcomes

  1. Comparison of susceptibility rate differences between the control and intervention groups

    Time frame: 6 Months Post Intervention

    Youth tobacco use intentions, Questions are 1) "Do you think you will try a cigarette soon?' (not asked of puffers), 2) "Do you think you will be smoking cigarettes one year from now?", and 3) "If one of your best friends were to offer you a cigarette, would you smoke it?" A never-smoker will be considered non-susceptible if answer to the first question is 'No' and answers to both questions 2 and 3 are 'Definitely not'; a puffer will be considered non-susceptible if answers to questions 2 and 3 are 'Definitely not'.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Effect of a family-based intervention

    Time frame: 6 Months

    Parenting behaviors - Monitoring knowledge: child disclosure, parental solicitation and control. Personal involvement: measures parent behavior indicative of their efforts to be aware of adolescents' activities and experiences. Consistent discipline: scale based on work conducted at the ASU Prevention Research Center. Self-efficacy - parent perceives him/herself capable of performing behaviors instrumental to good parenting practice/good developmental outcomes for their children. Social Support: The MSPSS101 measures perceived support from 3 domains: family, friends, and significant other.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Minnesota

Other

Collaborators

  • National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Registry information

Official study title

Family-Skills Training to Prevent Tobacco and Other Substance Use in Latino Youth: A CBPR RCT

Important dates

Study start
2011
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2015
First posted
Sep 29, 2011
Registry last updated
Jun 4, 2015

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