SER Familia: A Family-Based Intervention Addressing Syndemic Conditions Among Latino Immigrant Families

Duke University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Depression; Anxiety; HIV Infections; Intimate Partner Violence (IPV); Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: SER Familia

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT06627764

Pro00114672

1R01MD018920-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to prevent syndemic health conditions by decreasing acculturative stress and promoting resilience via SER Familia (Salud, Estrés y Resilencia en Familias/ Health, Stress, and Resilience in Families), a family-based intervention. SER Familia is a six-session intervention co-developed and delivered by community health workers (CHWs) that uses strategies to reduce acculturative stress, promote resilience, improve parent-child and family level health, while simultaneously helping families maintain strong social networks and better navigate community resources to address social determinants of health (SDOH). More specifically, investigators aim to: 1) Examine the efficacy of SER Familia to prevent or reduce the syndemic comprised of substance abuse, IPV, HIV risk, depression, and anxiety among Parents and Youth; and 2) Identify how individual, family, and community mechanisms of change related to acculturative stress and resilience mediates the effect of SER Familia.

Enrollment: 400 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 100 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible participants must identify as Hispanic/Latino/a/x/e,
• be a first generation immigrant parent or parental figure (Parent)
• have a child (Youth) aged 12-17
• speak English and/or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

• Families planning to move within two years will be excluded

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Sequential Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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400 participants in 2 patient groups

Familia SER (Salud, Estrés y Resilencia) Group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will attend six intervention sessions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: SER Familia

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants will not receive SER Familia sessions.