Adolescent Sexual Risk BehaviorsNCT00465010
Effects of a Worksite Parenting Program
A study testing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens in people with Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors, run by RAND at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
Many adolescents in the U.S., even very young adolescents, are engaging in sexual risk behaviors that put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Studies show that parents can play a significant role in promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction among adolescents. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 11 to 70 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors
- What is being tested?
- Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- How many people
- 1,252 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- Apr 2002to Mar 2009
- Phase
- Interventional
- Are there results?
- None posted in the registry
Key requirements
Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.
- Ages 11 to 70 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Who may be able to join
- Parents of adolescents in grades 6-10
- Parents must spend at least two days per week with their adolescents
- One parent per household/family
Who cannot join
None listed.
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
Official title: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Parenting Program for Parents of Adolescents
Many adolescents in the U.S., even very young adolescents, are engaging in sexual risk behaviors that put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Studies show that parents can play a significant role in promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction among adolescents. The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion has developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program for parents of adolescents (grades 6-10) to improve parent-adolescent communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. We are evaluating the effectiveness of the program primarily with confidential surveys of the participants before and after the program.
Read the detailed description
Many adolescents in the U.S., even very young adolescents, are engaging in sexual risk behaviors that put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Studies show that parents can play a significant role in promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction among adolescents. Parenting approaches such as engaging in open and responsive communication, providing appropriate levels of supervision, and keeping involved in children's lives are associated with better adolescent outcomes. However, many parents are uncertain about how to talk with their adolescents about sex. Worksites provide an untapped but promising setting in which to reach parents to help them develop parenting and communication skills.
The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion has developed a worksite-based parenting program for parents of adolescents (grades 6-10) to improve parent-adolescent communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Specifically, the Center has developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens for parents with adolescent children to teach communication skills as well as basic facts about sex and other important adolescent issues. The program aims to help parents understand adolescent development and the changes in adolescents' thoughts and feelings about sexual issues and other risk behaviors. It helps parents develop skills for discussing sensitive but important topics with their adolescents, and for teaching their adolescents decision-making and problem-solving skills. The program also emphasizes the importance of parents knowing what is going on in their adolescents' lives (often called parental monitoring). Although parents feel a need for help on such issues, they often tend to be too busy to attend ongoing programs. Therefore, we bring the program to them at their worksite. The program involves groups of about 12-15 parents who meet for an hour at lunch-time once a week for eight consecutive weeks. We serve a free lunch during the sessions.
We are evaluating the effectiveness of the Talking Parents, Healthy Teens program primarily with confidential surveys of the participants before and after the program. We also ask participants' adolescents (who are not in the parenting program) to fill out surveys as well. Among parents who initially express interest in the program, we randomize parents after they complete their baseline survey into an intervention group that takes the parenting program and a control group that does not. Both of these groups fill out confidential surveys over the course of several years. After the study has been conducted at a number of worksites, the research team will statistically compare survey answers for the two groups to see how well the program works. The results of the evaluation will be submitted for publication in academic journals.
- Conditions
- Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors
- Being tested
- Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
- Keywords
- Adolescence, Sexual health, Communication, Parenting
- Medical subject headings
- Communication
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
Talking Parents, Healthy TeensBehavioural
Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based parenting program to help parents of 6th-10th graders learn to promote their adolescents' healthy sexual development. The program is administered in 8 weekly one-hour sessions during the lunch hour to groups of about 15 parents and focuses on parent-adolescent relationships and communication, with an emphasis on promoting sexual health and reducing sexual risk. It is led by a trained facilitator and assistant facilitator.
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Parent-child communication
Measured: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes (2)
Parenting behaviors
Measured: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
Adolescent health behaviors
Measured: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted24 Apr 2007 (estimated)
- Study startApr 2002
- Primary completionMar 2009
- Study completionMar 2009
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (4)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Adolescent Sexual Risk BehaviorsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
More details
For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.
Study design
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Phase N/A
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
- Enrolment
- 1,252 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- RAND
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), University of California, Los Angeles
- Responsible party
- Sponsor
- Investigators
- Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, Principal investigator, RAND and UCLA
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00465010
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- R01MH061202
- Status last verified
- Oct 2011
- First submitted
- 23 Apr 2007
- Last updated
- 18 Oct 2011
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- No
Publications
Schuster MA, Eastman KL, Fielding JE, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Breslow L, Franzoi LL, Kanouse DE. Promoting adolescent health: worksite-based interventions with parents of adolescents. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Mar;7(2):41-52. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200107020-00007.
PubMed 12174399Eastman KL, Corona R, Ryan GW, Warsofsky AL, Schuster MA. Worksite-based parenting programs to promote healthy adolescent sexual development: a qualitative study of feasibility and potential content. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Jun;37(2):62-9. doi: 10.1363/psrh.37.062.05.
PubMed 15961359Eastman KL, Corona R, Schuster MA. Talking parents, healthy teens: a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Oct;3(4):A126. Epub 2006 Sep 15.
PubMed 16978501Schuster MA, Corona R, Elliott MN, Kanouse DE, Eastman KL, Zhou AJ, Klein DJ. Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a new worksite based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2008 Jul 10;337:a308. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39609.657581.25.
PubMed 18617492
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 18 Oct 2011. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Parenting Program for Parents of Adolescents
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00465010
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- R01MH061202
- Conditions
- Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors
- Keywords
- Adolescence, Sexual health, Communication, Parenting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 1,252 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- RANDUniversity, hospital or other
- Collaborators
- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), University of California, Los Angeles
- Study start
- Apr 2002
- Primary completion
- Mar 2009 (actual)
- Study completion
- Mar 2009 (actual)
- First posted
- 24 Apr 2007 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
Many adolescents in the U.S., even very young adolescents, are engaging in sexual risk behaviors that put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Studies show that parents can play a significant role in promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction among adolescents. The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion has developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program for parents of adolescents (grades 6-10) to improve parent-adolescent communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. We are evaluating the effectiveness of the program primarily with confidential surveys of the participants before and after the program.
Detailed description
Many adolescents in the U.S., even very young adolescents, are engaging in sexual risk behaviors that put them at risk for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and unintended pregnancy. Studies show that parents can play a significant role in promoting healthy sexual development and risk reduction among adolescents. Parenting approaches such as engaging in open and responsive communication, providing appropriate levels of supervision, and keeping involved in children's lives are associated with better adolescent outcomes. However, many parents are uncertain about how to talk with their adolescents about sex. Worksites provide an untapped but promising setting in which to reach parents to help them develop parenting and communication skills.
The UCLA/RAND Center for Adolescent Health Promotion has developed a worksite-based parenting program for parents of adolescents (grades 6-10) to improve parent-adolescent communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. Specifically, the Center has developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens for parents with adolescent children to teach communication skills as well as basic facts about sex and other important adolescent issues. The program aims to help parents understand adolescent development and the changes in adolescents' thoughts and feelings about sexual issues and other risk behaviors. It helps parents develop skills for discussing sensitive but important topics with their adolescents, and for teaching their adolescents decision-making and problem-solving skills. The program also emphasizes the importance of parents knowing what is going on in their adolescents' lives (often called parental monitoring). Although parents feel a need for help on such issues, they often tend to be too busy to attend ongoing programs. Therefore, we bring the program to them at their worksite. The program involves groups of about 12-15 parents who meet for an hour at lunch-time once a week for eight consecutive weeks. We serve a free lunch during the sessions.
We are evaluating the effectiveness of the Talking Parents, Healthy Teens program primarily with confidential surveys of the participants before and after the program. We also ask participants' adolescents (who are not in the parenting program) to fill out surveys as well. Among parents who initially express interest in the program, we randomize parents after they complete their baseline survey into an intervention group that takes the parenting program and a control group that does not. Both of these groups fill out confidential surveys over the course of several years. After the study has been conducted at a number of worksites, the research team will statistically compare survey answers for the two groups to see how well the program works. The results of the evaluation will be submitted for publication in academic journals.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Single group
- Masking
- None (open label)
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 11 to 70 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Key inclusion criteria (3 listed)
- Parents of adolescents in grades 6-10
- Parents must spend at least two days per week with their adolescents
- One parent per household/family
Key exclusion criteria (0 listed)
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| Talking Parents, Healthy TeensTalking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite-based parenting program to help parents of 6th-10th graders learn to promote their adolescents' healthy sexual development. The program is administered in 8 weekly one-hour sessions during the lunch hour to groups of about 15 parents and focuses on parent-adolescent relationships and communication, with an emphasis on promoting sexual health and reducing sexual risk. It is led by a trained facilitator and assistant facilitator. | Behavioural | – |
Primary outcome
Parent-child communication
Time frame: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
2 secondary outcomes
Parenting behaviors
Time frame: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
Adolescent health behaviors
Time frame: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 18 Oct 2011.
- Background: PubMed 12174399Schuster MA, Eastman KL, Fielding JE, Rotheram-Borus MJ, Breslow L, Franzoi LL, Kanouse DE. Promoting adolescent health: worksite-based interventions with parents of adolescents. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2001 Mar;7(2):41-52. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200107020-00007.
- Background: PubMed 15961359Eastman KL, Corona R, Ryan GW, Warsofsky AL, Schuster MA. Worksite-based parenting programs to promote healthy adolescent sexual development: a qualitative study of feasibility and potential content. Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2005 Jun;37(2):62-9. doi: 10.1363/psrh.37.062.05.
- Background: PubMed 16978501Eastman KL, Corona R, Schuster MA. Talking parents, healthy teens: a worksite-based program for parents to promote adolescent sexual health. Prev Chronic Dis. 2006 Oct;3(4):A126. Epub 2006 Sep 15.
- Results publication: PubMed 18617492Schuster MA, Corona R, Elliott MN, Kanouse DE, Eastman KL, Zhou AJ, Klein DJ. Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a new worksite based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: randomised controlled trial. BMJ. 2008 Jul 10;337:a308. doi: 10.1136/bmj.39609.657581.25.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD principal investigator
RAND and UCLA
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens in people with Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors, run by RAND at 1 site in United States.
The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.
Who may be eligible to take part?
The sponsor lists 3 inclusion and 0 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.
Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?
The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 18 Oct 2011. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.
Where is the study taking place?
The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.
What are the possible benefits and risks?
They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.
Are results available for this study?
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?
The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.
What does the primary outcome measure?
Parent-child communication (time frame: 0, 3, 9, 15, 21, 27, 33, 39, & 45 months post-intervention). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.
Where can I read the original study information?
On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00465010, which also lists 4 linked publications.
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?
No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.
How often is this information updated?
AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 18 Oct 2011.