CompletedNot Applicable

Adolescent Family-Based Alcohol Prevention

United States1,228 participantsStarted 2005-04

Plain-language summary

This study explores whether giving families a choice of family-based prevention programs to prevent adolescent alcohol use will make a difference in program recruitment, retention, completion, as well as adolescent outcomes. Half of the families are assigned to a traditional random control trial condition and half are assigned to a choice condition. Further, this effectiveness study is being implemented by Kaiser Permanente Health Care system, and explores the issues of implementing such programs within such settings.

Who can participate

Age range11 Years – 12 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Families who were members of one of four Kaiser Permanente medical centers in Northern California (Oakland, Vallejo, San Francisco, and Walnut Creek) at the time the sample was drawn who had an 11-12 year old child. Exclusion Criteria: * Child in alcohol or drug treatment, * Did not speak English fluently, * parents or adolescents with mental disorders which would hamper their ability to participate effectively or would cause them to be disruptive to the group process or for whom the comprehension of the reading material in Family Matters would be a problem.

What they're measuring

Youth alcohol and other drug use

Timeframe: 1 year and 2 years

Trial details

NCT IDNCT00858065

SponsorPacific Institute for Research and Evaluation

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2011-07

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