Trial reportBMJ (Clinical research ed.)2008
Evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a new worksite based parenting programme to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health: randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in BMJ (Clinical research ed.), 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT00465010 (Talking Parents, Healthy Teens), which is not on this map. Cited by 39 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-Based Parenting Program for Parents of Adolescents
Who cites it
39 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 105 citations in OpenAlex.
- Parent-Adolescent Sexual Communication and Adolescent Safer Sex Behavior: A Meta-Analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2016Pooled it
- Programs to Strengthen Parent-Adolescent Communication About Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Parent-based adolescent sexual health interventions and effect on communication outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analyses.Perspectives on sexual and reproductive health · 2015Pooled it
- Pooled it
- The "Secret of Seven Stones": Short-Term Efficacy of an Online Intergenerational Sexual Health Education Game for Early Adolescents and Their Parents.Games for health journal · 2026Trial
- Baseline results from NenŨnkUmbi/EdaHiYedo: A randomized clinical trial to improve sexual and reproductive health among American Indian adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2023Trial
- A Six-Month Outcome Evaluation ofJournal of health communication · 2022Trial
- Effects of a randomized controlled trial of a brief, student-nurse led, parent-based sexual health intervention on parental protective factors and HPV vaccination uptake.BMC public health · 2021Trial
- Evaluating the Short-term Impact of Media Aware Parent, a Web-based Program for Parents with the Goal of Adolescent Sexual Health Promotion.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Trial
- Let's Talk!, A South African worksite-based HIV prevention parenting program.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2013Trial
- Cost of talking parents, healthy teens: a worksite-based intervention to promote parent-adolescent sexual health communication.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2013Trial
- Parents as agents of change (PAC) in pediatric weight management: the protocol for the PAC randomized clinical trial.BMC pediatrics · 2012Trial
- Timing of parent and child communication about sexuality relative to children's sexual behaviors.Pediatrics · 2010Trial
- Parent-Teen Sexual Health Communication and Teens' Health Information and Service Seeking.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Caregiver-Youth Communication Patterns and Sexual and Reproductive Health Among American Indian Youth.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2024Article
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- A systematic review of effective parent-adolescent sexual and reproductive health information communication in lower- and middle-income countries.Health SA = SA Gesondheid · 2023Review
- Family-based interventions in youth to prevent HIV/AIDS: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Review
- Experiences of teachers, educators, and school counselors about the sexual and reproductive health of educable intellectually disabled adolescent girls: a qualitative study.Reproductive health · 2022Article
- Exploring Parent-gender Differences in Parent and Adolescent Reports of the Frequency, Quality, and Content of Their Sexual Health Communication.Journal of sex research · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo evaluate a worksite based parenting programme-Talking Parents, Healthy Teens-designed to help parents learn to address sexual health with their adolescent children.
designRandomised controlled trial (April 2002-December 2005).
setting13 worksites in southern California.
participants569 parents completed baseline surveys at work, gave permission for confidential surveys to be posted to their adolescent children, and were randomised to intervention or control groups. Parents and adolescents completed follow-up surveys at one week, three months, and nine months after the programme.
interventionTalking Parents, Healthy Teens consists of eight weekly one hour sessions at worksites for parents of adolescent children in 6th-10th grade (about ages 11-16 years).
main outcome measuresParent-adolescent communication about a list of sexual topics; whether parent taught adolescent how to use a condom; ability to communicate with parent/adolescent about sex; openness of parent-adolescent communication about sex.
resultsDifferences between intervention and control groups were significant for the mean number of new sexual topics that parents and adolescents reported discussing between baseline and each follow-up (P<0.001 for each); intervention parents were less likely than controls to discuss no new topics (8% v 29%, 95% confidence interval for difference 16% to 24%) and more likely to discuss seven or more new topics (38% v 8%, 19% to 41%) at nine months. Some differences increased after completion of the programme: at one week after the programme, 18% of adolescents in the intervention group and 3% in the control group (6% to 30%) said that their parents had reviewed how to use a condom since baseline (P<0.001); this grew to 29% v 5% (13% to 36%) at nine months (P<0.001). Compared with controls at nine months, parents and adolescents in the intervention group reported greater ability to communicate with each other about sex (P<0.001) and more openness in communication about sex (P<0.001).
conclusionsA worksite based programme can have substantial effects on communication between parents and adolescents about sexual health.
trial registrationClinical Trials NCT00465010.
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