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Guiding Good Choices for Health
Sponsor: University of Washington
Summary
This study evaluates the feasibility and effectiveness of implementing Guiding Good Choices (GGC), an anticipatory guidance curriculum for parents of early adolescents, in three large, integrated healthcare systems. By "parents," the study team is referring here and throughout this protocol to those adults who are the primary caregivers of children, irrespective of their biological relationship to the child. In prior community trials, GGC has been shown to prevent adolescent substance use (alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana), depressive symptoms, and delinquent behavior. This study offers an opportunity to test GGC effectiveness with respect to improving adolescent behavioral health outcomes when implemented at scale in pediatric primary care within a pragmatic trial.
Official title: A Pragmatic Trial of Parent-focused Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
11 Years - 12 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
3636
Start Date
2019-09-30
Completion Date
2025-05-31
Last Updated
2024-06-03
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Conditions
Interventions
Guiding Good Choices
Guiding Good Choices is a 5-session group-based prevention program for parents of early adolescents. Weekly 2.5 hour sessions will be held at participants' primary care clinics and led by two trained interventionists. Through didactic material, video segments, interactive activities, and home practice, the curriculum teaches parents to understand the progression from individual and environmental risk and protective factors to substance use and problem behavior, enhances parenting behaviors and skills, teaches effective family management skills, strengthens parent-adolescent interactions and bonding, broadens opportunities for family involvement, teaches conflict reduction and anger management skills, and teaches adolescents skills to resist peer influences to engage in risky behavior. Parents who opt not to attend groups will be offered a self-guided intervention manual containing the same core content and video access, plus supportive coaching to motivate use and address questions.
Locations (3)
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Oakland, California, United States
Kaiser Permanente Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Henry Ford Health System
Detroit, Michigan, United States