title: Families matter! Presexual risk prevention intervention.
abstract: Parent-based HIV prevention programming may play an important role in reaching youths early to help establish lifelong patterns of safe and healthy sexual behaviors. Families Matter! is a 5-session, evidence-based behavioral intervention designed for primary caregivers of children aged 9 to 12 years to promote positive parenting and effective parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction. The program's 5-step capacity-building model was implemented with local government, community, and faith-based partners in 8 sub-Saharan African countries with good intervention fidelity and high levels of participant retention. Families Matter! may be useful in other resource-constrained settings.
authors.affiliation: At the time of the study, the authors were with the Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.
authors.forename: Kim S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Miller
authors.forename: Sarah M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Lasswell
authors.forename: Drewallyn B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Riley
authors.forename: Melissa N
authors.initials: MN
authors.lastname: Poulsen
mesh_terms: D017954:Africa South of the Sahara; D057191:Capacity Building; D002648:Child; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005192:Family Health; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D016487:Parenting; D015397:Program Evaluation; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012725:Sexual Behavior
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