Clinical trial NCT01432756: A South African Pilot Worksite Parenting Program to Prevent HIV Among Adolescents
Official title: A South African Pilot Worksite Parenting Program to Prevent HIV Among Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Parent-Child Relations
Keywords: HIV
Lead sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
name: National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
First posted: 2011-09-13
Enrollment: 132
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 11
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The investigators hypothesize that participants in the worksite parenting program intervention will show significantly better parent-child communication than will participants in the no-treatment (wait-list) control group.

Detailed description: In South Africa, \>5 million people, including many adolescents, are living with HIV. Prevalence is increasing throughout South Africa, most precipitously in the Western Cape, the site of our proposed study. The investigators propose to pilot test a multisession worksite-based program to help parents learn how to take an active role in rearing sexually healthy youth. Our specific aims are to: (1) Culturally adapt our US-developed worksite-based program for parents of adolescents to the South African context; (2) Examine whether a worksite-based program for parents of adolescents in South Africa improves the parent-child relationship, including general parent-child communication and communication about sexual health and HIV risk-reduction, as perceived by parents and adolescents; (3) Explore program effects on parents' HIV testing and sexual behaviors; and (4) Explore program effects on theoretically important psychosocial mediators of behavior change (e.g., greater self-efficacy for refusing sex and using condoms, and more perceived disadvantages of unprotected sex). The proposed research is a unique opportunity to adapt and pilot test an innovative HIV prevention intervention that promotes the health of families in a culturally acceptable and sustainable setting.

The research is being conducted in three phases. In Phase 1, the investigators conducted formative qualitative interviews with South African community members who work with adolescents and parents, who work on HIV prevention, and who hold relevant positions at worksites. The investigators used this information from key community members to culturally adapt the program. In Phase 2, the investigators are conducting a process evaluation of one intervention group of 15 parents using qualitative debriefing interviews and quantitative data. In Phase 3, the current phase, the investigators aim to conduct a pilot intervention to refine the program even further and test the evaluation methods with 60 Xhosa and Afrikaans-speaking parents and their 11-15-year-old adolescents (who will participate in the evaluation but not the program). Their outcomes will be compared to a wait-list control group of 60 Xhosa and Afrikaans-speaking parents and their 11-15-year-old adolescents.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Parents: Work for City of Cape Town; Are Xhosa-speaking or Afrikaans-speaking; Have a child between the ages of 11-15 (self report); Spend at least 3 days/week with their adolescents
* Children: Eligible if they are between the ages of 11-15 (self report) and have a parent or legal guardian who works in the City of Cape Town who is enrolled in the program.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Topics Discussed Between Parent and Child
timeFrame: 6 months
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Stellenbosch
country: South Africa
facility: Stellenbosch University
state: Cape Town
Study officials:
affiliation: Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
name: Laura M. Bogart, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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