Trials
Volume 13, 2012

Immigrant family skills-building to prevent tobacco use in Latino youth: Study protocol for a community-based participatory randomized controlled trial (Article) (Open Access)

Allen M.L.* , Garcia-Huidobro D. , Hurtado G.A. , Allen R. , Davey C.S. , Forster J.L. , Hurtado M. , Lopez-Petrovich K. , Marczak M. , Reynoso U. , Trebs L. , Svetaz M.V.
  • a Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street S.E., Suite 166, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, United States
  • b Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, School of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street S.E., Suite 166, Minneapolis, MN, 55414, United States, Department of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108, United States
  • c Center for Family Development, University of Minnesota Extension, 444 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108, United States
  • d Center for Family Development, University of Minnesota Extension, 444 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108, United States
  • e Biostatistical Design and Analysis Center, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware Street S.E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, United States
  • f Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, 1300 S. Second Street, Suite 300, Minneapolis, MN, 55454, United States
  • g Aqui Para Ti Clinic for Latino Youth, Hennepin County Medical Center, 2700 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
  • h Centro-El Zocalo, 1915 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN, 55404, United States
  • i Center for Family Development, University of Minnesota Extension, 444 Coffey Hall, 1420 Eckles Avenue, St Paul, MN, 55108, United States
  • j Aqui Para Ti Clinic for Latino Youth, Hennepin County Medical Center, 2700 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
  • k Aqui Para Ti Clinic for Latino Youth, Hennepin County Medical Center, 2700 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States
  • l Aqui Para Ti Clinic for Latino Youth, Hennepin County Medical Center, 2700 East Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55406, United States

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. © 2012 Allen et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

Author Keywords

prevention and control Adolescent Hispanic Americans smoking Community-based participatory research Family

Index Keywords

immigrant Research Design Community Health Services family attitude human controlled study randomized controlled trial Time Factors substance abuse social support Minnesota child behavior Hispanic Americans knowledge health program Humans Hispanic Adolescent smoking Treatment Outcome male Emigrants and Immigrants female primary prevention juvenile Parent-Child Relations Article Adolescent Behavior major clinical study outcome assessment Community-Based Participatory Research Cultural Characteristics skill Clinical Protocols parental attitude Child
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84871154548&doi=10.1186%2f1745-6215-13-242&partnerID=40&md5=2ae8d24b21a0c927fef3819592aeb5f7
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-242
ISSN: 17456215
Cited by: 10
Original Language: English