DOI: 10.3886/icpsr38202.v1
title: Healthy Adolescent Sexual Development Study, Florida, 2018-2019
title: Version 1

description: Youths' high-risk sexual behaviors may be significantly reduced through healthy engagement in parental monitoring and supervision, parent-child connectedness, and parent-child sex conversations. This study was originally designed to explore fathers' role in these parenting behaviors, how they compare to that of mothers' and the relationship with any adolescent sexual behaviors. However, given issues with recruiting families for the mixed-methods approach, the study aim was changed. This study was guided by the parent-based expansion of the theory of planned behavior (PETPB). PETPB was developed using Bronfenbrenner's model on adolescent development and acknowledges that adolescents are significantly influenced by the family system, particularly by parenting behaviors such as connectedness, parent-child sex conversations, and monitoring and supervision (Hutchinson et al., 2012; Hutchinson & Wood, 2007). The PETPB asserts that family interventions and programs that improve these parenting behaviors may indirectly influence adolescents' sexual risk beliefs and behaviors, thus reducing their risk for pregnancy, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Therefore, the renewed aim was to explore the experiences of parents and teens in the southern US as it relates to parent-teen connectedness, parental monitoring, and parent-teen sex communication as well as the acceptability of an intervention to improve parenting and teen dynamics to indirectly reduce teens' sexual behaviors. Researchers conducted separate focus groups and in-depth interviews with 23 parents-teen dyads and triads to gather information on experiences, benefits, and challenges around parental monitoring of teens, parent-teen connectedness, and parent-teen sex communication.
description: The purpose of this study was to investigate fathers' role in adolescent sexuality, compare their influence to that of mothers, and investigate the acceptability of an intervention to improve parental monitoring, connectedness, and sex conversations between parents and teens in an effort to develop a foundation that supports healthy adolescent sexual development.
description: This study uses cross-sectional approach using individual and focus groups interviews including male or female adolescents ages 13-18 and parents/parent figures.
description: Recruitment relied primarily on indirect recruiting strategies such as posting informational flyers and posters on community bulletin boards, posting ads in the newspaper or other forms of media outlets not including social media. Upon gaining approval from the organizations, research staff provided flyers to organizations to be made visible to potential participants. These locations included doctors offices, libraries, and other community sites. Direct strategies were only permitted in organizations where the research staff were provided written consent in the form of a letter of support. In these circumstances, the research staff could table at community events or conduct informational/educational sessions with prior approval. All interested participants were provided a participant information sheet that describes the purpose of the study, the eligibility criteria, risks and benefits, compensation and contact information for the principal investigator.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Adolescent Interviews DS2: Adolescent Focus Groups DS3: Parent Interviews DS4: Parent Focus Groups
description: 104 male or female adolescents and as many as 208 parents/parent figures.
description: face-to-face interviewThis study is part of Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL) Qualitative Data Sharing (QDS) project.ICPSR has zipped the 21 focus group transcripts into four qualitative data packages. The packages are available for restricted download. Please refer to the ICPSR README documentation for more information.