Reducing HIV Risks in African American Teens

Education Development Center, Inc.

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Infections

Treatments: Behavioral: Healthy Futures parent education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT00963963

5R01HD054297

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is developing and testing an innovative, parent education intervention, Preparing Our Sons and Daughters for Healthy Futures. This intervention aims to reduce HIV risk among African American and other Black youth living in high-poverty urban neighborhoods. Investigators, working with a community advisory board and focus groups of youth and parents, will develop a multi-year set of audio-CDs to promote positive parenting practices that support young adolescents in establishing healthy patterns of behavior. This parent education intervention will be tested in a field trial with families of 6th graders recruited from multiple schools in New York City. Baseline and annual follow up surveys will be conducted until youth enter high school. Families receiving the intervention will be compared to those assigned to either an attention-controlled print materials condition or a non-attention controlled condition. It is hypothesized that youth whose parents receive the intervention will delay sexual initiation and report fewer sexual risks, and that their parents will report more positive parenting practices.

Enrollment: 1,200 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Attendance at selected schools
• 6th graders and their parents

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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1,200 participants in 3 patient groups

health promotion materials

Active Comparator group

Description:

Parents receive health promotion booklets

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Futures parent education

attention-controlled parent print materials

Active Comparator group

Description:

Booklets on adolescent sexuality and health

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Futures parent education

audio-CD parent education

Experimental group

Description:

audio-CDs on parenting practices

Treatment:

Behavioral: Healthy Futures parent education