title: Enhancing adolescent health behaviors through strengthening non-resident father-son relationships: a model for intervention with African-American families.
abstract: This paper provides a description of and rationale for components of a theoretically based conceptual model that guided the development and implementation of the Fathers and Sons Intervention Program. Using a community-based participatory research process, this intervention was designed to prevent risky health behaviors through strengthening father-son relationships among non-resident African-American fathers and their pre-adolescent sons. The implications of the conceptual model for future interventions with African-American fathers and sons are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, USA. cleoc@umich.edu
authors.forename: Cleopatra Howard
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Caldwell
authors.forename: Joan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Zimmerman
authors.forename: Katrina M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Walsemann
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: Patrick A C
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Isichei
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D018672:Community Health Planning; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D017144:Focus Groups; D015438:Health Behavior / Q000208:ethnology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008824:Michigan; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009679:Nuclear Family / Q000523:psychology*; D012111:Residence Characteristics