A South African Pilot Worksite Parenting Program to Prevent HIV Among Adolescents

NCT01432756 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 132

Last updated 2015-09-09

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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.

Conditions

  • Parent-Child Relations

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Let's Talk Worksite Parenting Program

The Let's Talk Worksite Parenting Program is designed for Xhosa-speaking and Afrikaans speaking parents (separate sessions) with 11- to 15-year-old children. The 5-session program meets weekly for 2 hours. The program will include instruction on parenting skills and will cover topics relevant to promoting adolescent sexual health, such as; parental involvement; adolescent sexual behavior; HIV; violence; and alcohol/substance use. Parent participants will receive weekly exercises to help them practice their new skills at home with their child.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH
  • National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)

    collaborator NIH
  • Boston Children's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura M. Bogart, PhD · Children's Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
11 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-09-30
Primary Completion
2012-04-30
Completion
2012-04-30

Countries

  • South Africa

Study Locations

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