Families Talking Together (FTT) in Texas

Summary

Power to Decide, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, partnered with the Center for Latino Adolescent and Family Health at New York University's Silver School of Social Work, Healthy Futures of Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley Council to implement Families Talking Together (FTT), an evidence-based teen pregnancy prevention program in Texas. This was a randomized clinical trial of a parent-based sexual and reproductive health intervention (SRH) to foster parent-adolescent communication about sex among Latino adolescents. The FTT intervention focuses on the parenting practices that are important to supporting healthy adolescent sexual behavior. As part of the intervention, families also received a module on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to influence greater linkages to health care.The study was conducted with 634 parent-adolescent dyads in Willacy, Starr, Hidalgo, and Cameron counties in South Texas. Parent-adolescent dyads completed a baseline survey and were allocated to either an experimental or control group. Participating dyads completed follow-up surveys 3 and 9 months' post-baseline assessment. The proposed outcomes of the study were increased adolescent report of parent-adolescent communication about sex, decrease in sexual risk behaviors (e.g., sexual debut) as well as increased health care insurance enrollment among Latino families.

Conditions

• Sexual Risk Behavior

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Families Talking Together (FTT)

FTT is an evidence-based program designed to increase parent-adolescent communication about sex in order to delay sexual debut and prevent negative SRH outcomes in young adolescents (aged 10 to 14). The FTT intervention has been delivered with efficacy in multiple settings, including schools and clinics (Guilamo-Ramos et al., 2011a; Guilamo-Ramos et al., 2011b).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Healthy Futures of Texas

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• New York University

  collaborator OTHER

• Rio Grande Valley Council

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Power to Decide

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Gillian Sealy, PhD · Power to Decide, The National Campaign to Prevent Unplanned Pregnancy

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

OTHER

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

10 Years

Max Age

14 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-12-05

Primary Completion

2017-06-15

Completion

2018-08-31