The Strong African American Families Program: translating research into prevention programming.
A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicative parenting causes changes in factors protecting youths from early alcohol use and sexual activity. Parenting variables included involvement-vigilance, racial socialization, communication about sex, and clear expectations for alcohol use. Youth protective factors included negative attitudes about early alcohol use and sexual activity, negative images of drinking youths, resistance efficacy, a goal-directed future orientation, and acceptance of parental influence. Intervention-induced changes in parenting mediated the effect of intervention group influences on changes in protective factors over a 7-month period.
Brody
Gene H
GH
Department of Child and Family Development and Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602-4527, USA. gbrody@uga.edu
Murry
Velma McBride
VM
Gerrard
Meg
M
Gibbons
Frederick X
FX
Molgaard
Virginia
V
McNair
Lily
L
Brown
Anita C
AC
Wills
Thomas A
TA
Spoth
Richard L
RL
Luo
Zupei
Z
Chen
Yi-Fu
YF
Neubaum-Carlan
Eileen
E
D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012424:Rural Population; D012746:Sexual Abstinence