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Abstract
Background: Despite declines over recent years, youth tobacco and other substance use rates remain high. Latino youth are at equal or increased risk for lifetime tobacco, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drug use compared with their white peers. Family plays an important and influential role in the lives of youth, and longitudinal research suggests that improving parenting skills may reduce youth substance use. However, few interventions are oriented towards immigrant Latino families, and none have been developed and evaluated using a community-based participatory research (CBPR) process that may increase the effectiveness and sustainability of such projects. Therefore, using CBPR principles, we developed a randomized clinical trial to assess the efficacy of a family-skills training intervention to prevent tobacco and other substance use intentions in Latino youth.Methods/Design: In collaboration with seven Latino community-serving agencies, we will recruit and randomize 336 immigrant families, into intervention or delayed treatment conditions. The primary outcome is youth intention to smoke 6 months post intervention. The intervention consists of eight parent and four youth sessions targeting parenting skills and parent-youth relational factors associated with lower smoking and other substance use in youth.Discussion: We present the study protocol for a family intervention using a CBPR randomized clinical trial to prevent smoking among Latino youth. The results of this trial will contribute to the limited information on effective and sustainable primary prevention programs for tobacco and other substance use directed at the growing US Latino communities.Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT01442753.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 242 |
Journal | Trials |
Volume | 13 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 19 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The authors would like to acknowledge all parents, youth, community agency staff, and other collaborators that contributed to the development of the program, including Centro, West Side Community Health Services, Neighborhood House, Aquí Para Ti Clinic for Latino Youth, South Saint Paul School District, Centro Campesino, and University of Minnesota Extension in Kason. They would particularly like to posthumously acknowledge the essential contribution of Bibiana Garzon in building the Padres Informados program. This project is being funded by National Cancer Institute U54 Center Grant ‘Minnesota Centers for Cancer Collaboration’ 1U54CA153603-02 and supported by Grant Number UL1RR024150 from the National Center for Research Resources, National Institutes of Health. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Keywords
- Adolescent
- Community-based participatory research
- Family
- Hispanic Americans
- Prevention and control
- Smoking
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