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

University of Minnesota (UMN)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tobacco Use Disorder; Drug Abuse; Smoking; Alcohol Use Disorder; Alcohol Drinking; Drug Use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Family-Skills Training

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01442753

2010NTLS088

1008S86938 (Other Identifier)

1U54CA153603-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 800 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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800 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Families will be randomized to either receive the intervention (family-skills training) immediately. The intervention will be delivered over eight weeks. 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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family-Skills Training

Control Group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Control group will receive the intervention (family-skills training) in approximately ten months. The intervention will be delivered over eight weeks. 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.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Family-Skills Training