title: Parental monitoring and adolescent alcohol risk in a clinic population.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoryfor Health Behavior Assessment and Intervention, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. kb9@umail.umd.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth H
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Beck
authors.forename: Jennifer R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Boyle
authors.forename: Bradley O
authors.initials: BO
authors.lastname: Boekeloo
mesh_terms: 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