A Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention for Latinos

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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The purpose of this study is to examine the efficacy of a brief culturally appropriate and theory-based parental communication intervention designed to improve parent-adolescent sexual communication and reduce adolescent sexual risk behavior.

Detailed Description
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Latino adolescents are at high risk for contracting HIV/AIDS. Few individual and even fewer parent interventions have been developed to address this persistent problem. Parent communication interventions provide an opportunity to enhance individual adolescent based approaches. However, there is a need for theory and culture based interventions focused on Latino parents. The program implemented in this study was designed for parents, to indirectly help reduce the health risks of their adolescents, including unintended pregnancy and STDs, including HIV/AIDS. The study has three aims regarding the examination of whether the computer based parental communication intervention is 1) associated with a greater increase in parents' comfort with, and quantity of communication; 2) associated with a greater increase in adolescents' intentions to abstain from sex and/or avoid unprotected intercourse and decreased self-reported intercourse and unprotected intercourse; and 3) feasible and acceptable to Spanish dominant Latino parents and their adolescent children.

Official Title
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A Computer-Based Parent/Adolescent HIV Communication Intervention for Latinos

Conditions
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STD, HIV/AIDS, Pregnancy

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Computer-based parent-adolescent HIV communication


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: Latino parents who have adolescents 14 to 17 years of age Spanish dominant or bilingual
Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Prevention
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Computer based intervention<br>Participants receive content about adolescent sexual risk and HIV prevention, strategies to support sexual specific communication and parent-adolescent communication in general. | Behavioral: Computer-based parent-adolescent HIV communication<br>* The parental intervention consists of a 60 minute computer-based program delivered in two sessions (one per week). The DVD ROM provides information about adolescent sexual risk and HIV prevention, strategies to support sexual specific communication and parent-adolescent communication in general. The computer based education program is provided in Spanish.<br>* Other names: Cuidalos;|
| No Intervention: Wait list control group<br>Participants will receive the computer based intervention at 3 months follow-up | |

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| general parent-adolescent communication, parent-adolescent sexual risk communication, comfort with communication |  | pretest, 1 week, 3 months | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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Adolescents, Parents, Computer Based, Latino, Sexual Communication