Drug abuse risk and protective factors among black urban adolescent girls: a group-randomized trial of computer-delivered mother-daughter intervention.
A group-randomized design tested a mother-daughter intervention in which researchers aimed to increase protective factors in a community sample of Black urban adolescent girls. Girls and their mothers at 2 community agencies were pretested and, by agency, were randomized to either an intervention arm or a control arm. Intervention arm girls and their mothers received a program for improving mother- daughter rapport. Posttest data collected 3 weeks after program delivery revealed that intervention arm mothers and daughters improved more than did control arm mothers and daughters on measures of communication and closeness. At 3-month follow-up, intervention arm mothers, relative to control arm mothers, continued to report better communication with and closeness to their daughters. Girls and mothers in the intervention arm rated the computer program favorably on parameters of enjoyment, comfort, relevance, usefulness of information, improvements to their relationship with one another, and whether they would recommend the computer program to friends.
Schinke
Steven
S
School of Social WorkColumbia University, New York, NY, USA. schinke@columbia.edu
Di Noia
Jennifer
J
Schwinn
Traci
T
Cole
Kristin
K
D000293:Adolescent; D044383:Black People / Q000523:psychology*; D016251:CD-ROM; D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003196:Computer Graphics; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005196:Family Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009519:New York City; D012984:Software; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D013813:Therapy, Computer-Assisted; D014505:Urban Population; D001741:Black or African American