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Families Talking Together Plus: An Approach to Promote Sexual Delay and Strengthen Sexual Risk Avoidance Education

NCT04731649 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1227

Last updated 2024-10-10

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Summary

Despite reductions in adolescent sexual behavior over the past decade, premature sexual activity remains prevalent among adolescents and alarming adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) disparities exist. Positive youth development (PYD) research has identified adolescent protective factors, such as success sequencing, self-regulation, goal setting, and strong family support \[i.e., positive family development (PFD)\] that are associated with increased sexual risk avoidance as well as individual life opportunities and societal benefits. Needed are programmatic efforts to strengthen adolescent protective factors among populations in greatest need, with a particular emphasis on the important role of parents in promoting sexual delay. The proposed project is designed to target Latino and Black adolescents aged 12-17 years residing in the South Bronx, New York City, a high-need community for sexual risk programming and promotion of adolescent life opportunities. The investigators evaluate a program called Families Talking Together Plus (FTT+), an online, parent-based intervention that is medically accurate, culturally tailored, and age-appropriate. To implement FTT +, the investigators draw upon an innovative and culturally competent intervention delivery approach, namely community health workers (CHWs) as "Life Opportunity Coaches."

Conditions

  • Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Families Talking Together Plus (FTT +)

FTT + consists of three online intervention sessions of approximately 60-90 minutes each, that cover content from nine modules designed to teach parents effective communication skills, build parent-adolescent relationships, help parents develop successful monitoring strategies, and teach adolescents assertiveness, refusal skills, and how to use a condom correctly and every time.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, PhD · Johns Hopkins University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-03-01
Primary Completion
2024-09-27
Completion
2024-09-27

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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