title: Feasibility of a parenting program to prevent substance use among Latino youth: a community-based participatory research study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Family-skills training programs prevent adolescent substance use, but few exist for immigrant Latino families. This study assesses the feasibility of a family-skills training intervention developed using a community-based participatory research framework, and explores parental traditional values as a modifier of preliminary effects.
  
  
  METHODS
  One-group pretest-posttest.
  
  
  METHODS
  Four Latino youth-serving sites (school, clinic, church, social-service agency).
  
  
  METHODS
  Immigrant Latino parents of adolescents aged 10 to 14 years (N  =  83).
  
  
  METHODS
  Eight-session program in Spanish to improve parenting practices and parent-youth interpersonal relations designed with Latino parents and staff from collaborating organizations.
  
  
  METHODS
  Feasibility was assessed through retention, program appropriateness, and group interaction quality. Preliminary outcomes evaluated were (1) parenting self-efficacy, discipline, harsh parenting, monitoring, conflict, attachment, acceptance, and involvement, and (2) parent perception of adolescent internalizing, externalizing, and substance use behaviors. Covariates included sociodemographics and parental endorsement of traditional values.
  
  
  METHODS
  Feasibility outcomes were assessed with descriptive statistics. Paired t-tests measured changes in parenting outcomes. Adjusted multiple regression models were conducted for change in each outcome, and t-tests compared mean changes in outcomes between parents with high and low traditional values scores.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Program appropriateness and group interaction scores were positive. Improvement was noted for eight parenting outcomes. Parents perceived that adolescent internalizing behaviors decreased. Parents with lower endorsement of traditional values showed greater pretest-posttest change in attachment, acceptance, and involvement.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This intervention is feasible and may influence parenting contributors to adolescent substance use.
authors: Department of Family Medicine, University of Minnesota, 717 Delaware St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414, USA. miallen@umn.edu
authors: Michele L
authors: ML
authors: Allen
authors: Ghaffar A
authors: GA
authors: Hurtado
authors: Kyu Jin
authors: KJ
authors: Yon
authors: Kola S
authors: KS
authors: Okuyemi
authors: Cynthia S
authors: CS
authors: Davey
authors: Mary S
authors: MS
authors: Marczak
authors: Patricia
authors: P
authors: Stoppa
authors: Veronica M
authors: VM
authors: Svetaz
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D055812:Community-Based Participatory Research; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D005240:Feasibility Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017058:Mexican Americans; D016487:Parenting; D010290:Parents / Q000193:education*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*