title: Social cognitive mediators of parent-child sexual communication.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To test a social cognitive behavior change model and identify mediators of the effects of the Parents Speak Up National Campaign (PSUNC) on parent-child sexual communication.
  
  
  METHODS
  Investigators used 5 waves of data from an online randomized controlled trial.  Latent variables were developed based on item response theory and confirmatory factor analysis. Structural equation modeling was used to test mediation.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Outcome expectations mediated effects of social norms and self-efficacy on sexual communication. Other hypothesized mediators  were not confirmed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Interventions to promote parent-child sexual communication should target outcome expectations. Future research should investigate parents' health information seeking.
authors: The GeorgeWashington University, School of Public Health and Health Services, NW Washington, DC, USA. wdevans@gwu.edu
authors: W Douglas
authors: WD
authors: Evans
authors: Jonathan L
authors: JL
authors: Blitstein
authors: Kevin C
authors: KC
authors: Davis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012736:Sex Education / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012927:Social Control, Informal