The Impact of a Parenting Intervention on Latino Youth Health Behaviors

Summary

The purpose of this study is to test if a parenting program can be used to prevent substance use among Latino youth and at the same time promote healthy eating. Pairs of 7th grade students and one of their parents will be enrolled in the study and randomly assigned to three groups: an existing parenting intervention focusing on substance use prevention (FPNG), the enhanced parenting intervention that also has nutrition content (FPNG+), and a comparison program focused on academic success. Only parents will attend intervention sessions. Data will be collected from the parent and their 7th grade student to see how these programs impacted substance use, nutrition, and parenting. The investigators hypothesize that families receiving the FPNG+ will have improved nutrition habits than the other conditions. Students in both FPNG and FPNG+ will have lower substance use rates as compared to the academic success program. In addition, the effects of parenting strategies and sociocultural factors on the FPNG and FPNG+ results will be studied.

Conditions

• Diet Modification
• Substance Use Disorders
• Diabetes Mellitus Risk
• Cardiovascular Risk Factor
• Lifestyle Risk Reduction
• Parenting

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Nutrition/substance use prevention

Parenting program focusing on diet improvement and substance use prevention

BEHAVIORAL

Substance use prevention only

Parenting program focusing only on substance use prevention

BEHAVIORAL

Academic success program

Program focusing on academic success and college acceptance

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)

  collaborator NIH

• Arizona State University

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Flavio F Marsiglia, PhD · Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Arizona State University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

12 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2018-09-26

Primary Completion

2022-03-31

Completion

2022-03-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations