Effects of culturally adapted parent management training on Latino youth behavioral health outcomes.
A randomized experimental test of the implementation feasibility and the efficacy of a culturally adapted Parent Management Training intervention was conducted with a sample of 73 Spanish-speaking Latino parents with middle-school-aged youth at risk for problem behaviors. Intervention feasibility was evaluated through weekly parent satisfaction ratings, intervention participation and attendance, and overall program satisfaction. Intervention effects were evaluated by examining changes in parenting and youth adjustment for the intervention and control groups between baseline and intervention termination approximately 5 months later. Findings provided strong evidence for the feasibility of delivering the intervention in a larger community context. The intervention produced benefits in both parenting outcomes (i.e., general parenting, skill encouragement, overall effective parenting) and youth outcomes (i.e., aggression, externalizing, likelihood of smoking and use of alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs). Differential effects of the intervention were based on youth nativity status.
Martinez
Charles R
CR
Oregon Social Learning Center, Eugene, OR 97401, USA. charlesm@oslc.org
Eddy
J Mark
JM
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D035841:Behavioral Research; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009922:Oregon; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D016487:Parenting / Q000208:ethnology*; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States