Parental monitoring and adolescent alcohol risk in a clinic population.
OBJECTIVE
To assess the association between parental monitoring and adolescent alcohol risk.


METHODS
Adolescent managed-care patients completed a survey of their involvement with alcohol and their perceptions of monitoring and other forms of parental influence.


RESULTS
Frequent monitoring was associated with less likelihood that adolescents had engaged in a variety of alcohol-risk behaviors or had been in a variety of risk situations. Choosing to share alcohol-related concerns with other adults and placing importance on parents' opinions were not as consistently related to alcohol risk.


CONCLUSIONS
The need to enhance parental monitoring as a proactive protective parental response is indicated.
Beck
Kenneth H
KH
Laboratoryfor Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. kb9@umail.umd.edu
Boyle
Jennifer R
JR
Boekeloo
Bradley O
BO
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D035841:Behavioral Research; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D004219:District of Columbia / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012309:Risk-Taking