title: [Interventions involving parents in order to impact adolescent sexual behavior].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To examine the effects of educational interventions that incorporate parent participation to modify adolescent sexual behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  We conducted a systematic search of 5 electronic databases for articles published between 2002 and 2009 that evaluated educational interventions involving parents.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Nineteen articles evaluated 15 interventions that met all the criteria for inclusion. They found a significant increase in adolescents' intentions to postpone sexual intercourse and use contraceptives, a reduction in self-reported sexual relations and an increase in condom use. Positive results were also found for individual protective factors such as knowledge and attitude, and family factors such as parent-child communication, perception of rules, monitoring/supervision by parents and family support.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Educational interventions that include parents support healthy sexual behavior among adolescents. Parental participation can be included in any intervention aimed at adolescents.
authors.affiliation: Dirección de Salud Reproductiva, Centro de Investigación en Salud Poblacional, Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, Morelos, México.
authors.forename: Erika E
authors.initials: EE
authors.lastname: Atienzo
authors.forename: Lourdes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Campero
authors.forename: Fátima
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Estrada
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rouse
authors.forename: Dilys
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Walker
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D006801:Humans; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D012725:Sexual Behavior