Adolescent BehaviorsLIFTNCT02129153
Linking Families Together Study- A Randomized Trial to Raise Parental Monitoring
A study testing LIFT (Parent Information) in people with Adolescent Behaviors and Substance Abuse, run by University of California, Los Angeles at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for students' academic performance and health behaviors. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 11 to 15 yearsHealthy volunteers can take part
- Conditions the study is for
- Adolescent Behaviors, Substance Abuse
- What is being tested?
- LIFT (Parent Information)
- Type of treatment
- Lifestyle or therapy programme
- Could I receive a placebo?
- No, everyone receives an active treatment
- How many people
- 318 participants
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- 1 Sep 2014to 1 Aug 2016
- 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 15 years
- All sexes
- Healthy volunteers accepted
- Child
Who may be able to join
- For adults, must be a parent/guardian of a student at a participating middle school
- For minors, must be a student at a participating middle school
- Must speak English or Spanish
- Entering 7th grade in Fall 2014 at one of the middle schools participating in the study
Who cannot join
- None
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
About this study
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for students' academic performance and health behaviors. This study is based in middle schools around Los Angeles County a region with a high prevalence of teen risky health behaviors.
The aims of our study are:
- To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group.
- To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
- To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
Read the detailed description
Despite parental monitoring and school involvement being among the most important protective factors leading to positive teen academic and health trajectories, few theoretically based rigorously evaluated interventions test strategies to support low income parents as their adolescents transition from middle to high school, a particularly risky time for students' academic and health behaviors.
In a successful pilot study, student's missing assignments information was communicated directly to parents. Intervention parents were nearly twice as likely to report their child not telling them enough about his or her school work than control parents. After just 6 months, intervention students had a 0.19 standard deviation increase in GPA over the control group and 0.20 standard deviation higher standardized math test score.
In the proposed study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of an intervention to improve parental monitoring and thus improve academic outcomes and reduce risky health behaviors. The adapted intervention will also include sessions for parents to build positive parent-child communication and awareness of school expectations.
We propose a randomized controlled trial with 2 arms examining whether providing parents detailed information on their child's academic and behavioral performance in school in combination with basic parenting support, increases parental monitoring for low-income, minority families. We hypothesize that better parental monitoring will lead to improved academic and behavioral performance. Using this design we can determine whether the impact of the information and parenting intervention is also protective of teens engaging in risky health behaviors. We will compare the experimental and control group parents to examine whether providing high-quality academic information to parents of middle school students increases parental monitoring, student academic performance, and teen health outcomes during middle school and beyond.
If the intervention boosts adolescent academic and health outcomes as hypothesized, the results of the proposed study offer schools low-cost strategies to simultaneously positively influence student academic and health trajectories. These findings have the potential to stimulate new research to improve health through innovative interventions to bolster parent teen relationships for gains accrued throughout the life span.
The aims of our study are:
- To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group.
- To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
- To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
Thus the proposed study builds on and extends the earlier pilot study by recruiting more middle schools around Los Angeles, offering parents additional supports through parenting workshops, and assessing the program's impact on adolescent behavioral outcomes. Successfully implementing this study will allow us to demonstrate feasibility for a future randomized controlled trial and assess effect size for parental monitoring and health outcomes.
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behaviors, Substance Abuse
- Being tested
- LIFT (Parent Information)
- Keywords
- Randomized controlled trial, Population, School Age
- Medical subject headings
- Adolescent Behavior, Substance-Related Disorders
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
LIFT (Parent Information)Behavioural
Also called Information/ Linking Families Together (LIFT)
- Parents will receive specific information about class assignments that the student missed or about poor performance on tests/quizzes. Parents will also be notified about behavioral problems, such as poor attention and class disruption. RA will communicate with parents in Spanish or English by text message, phone, email according to the parents preference for communication
- Parents will be invited to parenting seminars to discuss parenting strategies regarding what to do with their child's academic and behavioral information once they receive it from research staff. Sessions will take place at school and last 2 hours. Multiple sessions will be offered throughout the academic year and parents may attend as many sessions as they wish.
| Study group | Role | What they receive |
|---|---|---|
| LIFT (Parent information) | Experimental | LIFT (Parent information): during their child's 7th and 8th grade years research staff will 1. communicate with parents about their child's academic and behavioral performance in school, roughly twice-monthly 2. invite parents to participate in a 2-hour parent support session to help teach parents to communicate better with their child and support better academic and behavioral performance in school
* students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year)
* parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year) Receives: Behavioral: LIFT (Parent Information) |
| Usual care group | No intervention | Usual care control group/No Intervention consists of neither communication of academic information to parents nor invitation to parent support sessions. * students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year) * parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year) |
What is being measured
The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.
Change from baseline in student 30 day alcohol use
Student self report: During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have at least one drink of alcohol?
Measured: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Secondary outcomes (3)
Change from baseline in student 30 day marijuana use
Student self report: During the past 30 days, on how many days did you use marijuana?
Measured: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Change from baseline in parental monitoring
Student completing validated 9-item parental monitoring scale
Measured: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Change from baseline in student standardized test scores
Student standardized test scores
Measured: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted2 May 2014 (estimated)
- Study start1 Sep 2014
- Primary completion30 Jun 2016
- Study completion1 Aug 2016
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Publications (1)Papers the sponsor has linked to this study.
- Other trials for Adolescent BehaviorsStudies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by University of California, Los AngelesThe sponsor's other registered studies.
- 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
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind
- Who is masked
- Participant
- Enrolment
- 318 participants (actual)
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Sponsor type
- University, hospital or other
- Responsible party
- Principal investigator, Dr. Mitchell Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
- Investigators
- Mitchell D Wong, MD PhD, Principal investigator, University of California, Los Angeles
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02129153
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- IRB#13-001638
- Acronym
- LIFT
- Status last verified
- Feb 2017
- First submitted
- 30 Apr 2014
- Last updated
- 8 Feb 2017
- Results posted
- No
- Data monitoring committee
- Yes
- Individual data sharing
- No
Publications
Bergman P, Dudovitz RN, Dosanjh KK, Wong MD. Engaging Parents to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Public Health. 2019 Oct;109(10):1455-1461. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305240. Epub 2019 Aug 15.
PubMed 31415193
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 8 Feb 2017. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Linking Families Together Study- A Randomized Trial to Raise Parental Monitoring
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT02129153
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- LIFT / IRB#13-001638
- Conditions
- Adolescent Behaviors, Substance Abuse
- Keywords
- Randomized controlled trial, Population, School Age
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Enrolment
- 318 participants (actual)
- Lead sponsor
- University of California, Los AngelesUniversity, hospital or other
- Study start
- 1 Sep 2014
- Primary completion
- 30 Jun 2016 (actual)
- Study completion
- 1 Aug 2016 (actual)
- First posted
- 2 May 2014 (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.
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for students' academic performance and health behaviors. This study is based in middle schools around Los Angeles County a region with a high prevalence of teen risky health behaviors.
The aims of our study are:
- To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group.
- To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
- To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
Detailed description
Despite parental monitoring and school involvement being among the most important protective factors leading to positive teen academic and health trajectories, few theoretically based rigorously evaluated interventions test strategies to support low income parents as their adolescents transition from middle to high school, a particularly risky time for students' academic and health behaviors.
In a successful pilot study, student's missing assignments information was communicated directly to parents. Intervention parents were nearly twice as likely to report their child not telling them enough about his or her school work than control parents. After just 6 months, intervention students had a 0.19 standard deviation increase in GPA over the control group and 0.20 standard deviation higher standardized math test score.
In the proposed study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of an intervention to improve parental monitoring and thus improve academic outcomes and reduce risky health behaviors. The adapted intervention will also include sessions for parents to build positive parent-child communication and awareness of school expectations.
We propose a randomized controlled trial with 2 arms examining whether providing parents detailed information on their child's academic and behavioral performance in school in combination with basic parenting support, increases parental monitoring for low-income, minority families. We hypothesize that better parental monitoring will lead to improved academic and behavioral performance. Using this design we can determine whether the impact of the information and parenting intervention is also protective of teens engaging in risky health behaviors. We will compare the experimental and control group parents to examine whether providing high-quality academic information to parents of middle school students increases parental monitoring, student academic performance, and teen health outcomes during middle school and beyond.
If the intervention boosts adolescent academic and health outcomes as hypothesized, the results of the proposed study offer schools low-cost strategies to simultaneously positively influence student academic and health trajectories. These findings have the potential to stimulate new research to improve health through innovative interventions to bolster parent teen relationships for gains accrued throughout the life span.
The aims of our study are:
- To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group.
- To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
- To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
Thus the proposed study builds on and extends the earlier pilot study by recruiting more middle schools around Los Angeles, offering parents additional supports through parenting workshops, and assessing the program's impact on adolescent behavioral outcomes. Successfully implementing this study will allow us to demonstrate feasibility for a future randomized controlled trial and assess effect size for parental monitoring and health outcomes.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Prevention
- Allocation
- Randomised
- Intervention model
- Parallel groups
- Masking
- Single blind (participant)
- Number of arms
- 2
| Arm | Type | Receives |
|---|---|---|
| LIFT (Parent information) | Experimental | Behavioral: LIFT (Parent Information)LIFT (Parent information): during their child's 7th and 8th grade years research staff will 1. communicate with parents about their child's academic and behavioral performance in school, roughly twice-monthly 2. invite parents to participate in a 2-hour parent support session to help teach parents to communicate better with their child and support better academic and behavioral performance in school * students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year) * parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year) |
| Usual care group | No intervention | –Usual care control group/No Intervention consists of neither communication of academic information to parents nor invitation to parent support sessions. * students take a baseline survey then 3 surveys (one/year) * parents take a baseline survey then 2 surveys (one/year) |
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 11 to 15 years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Age groups
- Child
Key inclusion criteria (4 listed)
- For adults, must be a parent/guardian of a student at a participating middle school
- For minors, must be a student at a participating middle school
- Must speak English or Spanish
- Entering 7th grade in Fall 2014 at one of the middle schools participating in the study
Key exclusion criteria (1 listed)
- None
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 |
|---|---|---|
| LIFT (Parent Information)Also: Information/ Linking Families Together (LIFT)1. Parents will receive specific information about class assignments that the student missed or about poor performance on tests/quizzes. Parents will also be notified about behavioral problems, such as poor attention and class disruption. RA will communicate with parents in Spanish or English by text message, phone, email according to the parents preference for communication 2. Parents will be invited to parenting seminars to discuss parenting strategies regarding what to do with their child's academic and behavioral information once they receive it from research staff. Sessions will take place at school and last 2 hours. Multiple sessions will be offered throughout the academic year and parents may attend as many sessions as they wish. | Behavioural | LIFT (Parent information) |
Primary outcome
Change from baseline in student 30 day alcohol use
Time frame: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Student self report: During the past 30 days, on how many days did you have at least one drink of alcohol?
3 secondary outcomes
Change from baseline in student 30 day marijuana use
Time frame: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Change from baseline in parental monitoring
Time frame: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
Change from baseline in student standardized test scores
Time frame: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)
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 8 Feb 2017.
- Derived from this study: PubMed 31415193Bergman P, Dudovitz RN, Dosanjh KK, Wong MD. Engaging Parents to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Am J Public Health. 2019 Oct;109(10):1455-1461. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305240. Epub 2019 Aug 15.
- Individual participant dataSharing planned: No
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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.
Mitchell D Wong, MD PhD principal investigator
University of California, Los Angeles
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A study testing LIFT (Parent Information) in people with Adolescent Behaviors and Substance Abuse, run by University of California, Los Angeles 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 4 inclusion and 1 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 8 Feb 2017. 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?
Change from baseline in student 30 day alcohol use (time frame: baseline, two year, three year (i.e. one year follow up)). 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 NCT02129153, which also lists 1 linked publication.
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 8 Feb 2017.