Families With Pride ("Familias Con Orgullo").

University of Miami

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Depression; Drug Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Families with Pride ("Familias con Orgullo")

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06057337

1R01MD017588-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

20230372

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the effects of a parenting intervention for Hispanic sexual minority youth in preventing/reducing drug use and depressive symptoms. It will also examine whether the intervention improves parent social support for the adolescent, parent acceptance, family functioning, and whether it reduces general stress and stress associated with being a Hispanic sexual minority.

Enrollment: 306 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 19 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Youth, 13 - 19, who report at least one of the following: a) identify as gay, lesbian, or bisexual, or b) reports same-sex sexual behavior.
• Adolescent has their disclosed their sexual minority status to at least one parent.
• Adolescent is of Hispanic immigrant origin, defined by having at least one parent that self-identifies as Hispanic (English and Spanish speaking Hispanics can participate in the study).
• Adolescent lives with an adult parent who is willing to participate.
• Family lives in South Florida

Exclusion criteria

• Adolescent identifies as transgender.
• Family plans to move out of South Florida during the study period

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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306 participants in 2 patient groups

Families with Pride ("Familias con Orgullo")

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive the Families with Pride (Familias con Orgullo) intervention. The intervention consists of seven multi parent group sessions, three multi adolescent group sessions, and four family sessions (parents participant in a total of 11 sessions, adolescents participate in a total of seven sessions) that will be delivered by a facilitator to the parent-child dyad across 12 weeks.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Families with Pride ("Familias con Orgullo")

Community Practice

No Intervention group

Description:

In this condition, participants will not receive an intervention, only the standard of care services for up to 12 weeks.