ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2015
Efficacy of a Brief Intervention to Reduce Substance Use and Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection Risk Among Latino Youth.
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- Pooled it
- Individual-, family-, and school-level interventions targeting multiple risk behaviours in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- School-based interventions for preventing HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy in adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016Pooled it
- Familias con Orgullo: Pilot Study of a Family Intervention for Latinx Sexual Minority Youth to Prevent Drug Use, Sexual Risk Behavior, and Depressive Symptoms.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Efficacy of a Family-Based Intervention for HIV Prevention with Hispanic Adolescents with Same Gender Sexual Behaviors.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Trial
- Predictors of Participation in an eHealth, Family-Based Preventive Intervention for Hispanic Youth.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
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- What Teens Hear and How They React: Adolescent Perspectives on Substance Use, Sexual Risk, and Sexual Violence Prevention in Primary Care.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Pilot Implementation of Guiando Buenas Decisiones, an Evidence-Based Parenting Program for Spanish-Speaking Families, in Pediatric Primary Care in a Large, U.S. Health System: A Qualitative Interview Study.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Screening for Adolescent Risk Behaviors: Preliminary Evidence for a Family Functioning Tool.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2024Article
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- Family Interventions to improve mental, emotional, and behavioral health outcomes among Latinx youth: A systematic review.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Culturally enhancing a group-based motivational interviewing substance use prevention program for Latine youth.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2022Article
- Internalizing Symptoms and Externalizing Behaviors in Latinx Adolescents with Same Sex Behaviors in Miami.Journal of LGBT youth · 2022Article
- Vital Voices: HIV Prevention and Care Interventions Developed for Disproportionately Affected Communities by Historically Underrepresented, Early-Career Scientists.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2021Review
- Assessment of Parent-Based Interventions for Adolescent Sexual Health: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Article
- Evaluating construct equivalence of youth depression measures across multiple measures and multiple studies.Psychological assessment · 2019Article
- Parent-adolescent relationships in Hispanic versus Caucasian families: Associations with alcohol and marijuana use onset.Addictive behaviors · 2017Article
- Short-Term Effects on Family Communication and Adolescent Conduct Problems: Familias Unidas in Ecuador.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Article
- "Scaling-out" evidence-based interventions to new populations or new health care delivery systems.Implementation science : IS · 2017Review
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purposeFamilias Unidas is an efficacious and effective family-based intervention for preventing and reducing substance use and unsafe sexual behaviors among Latino youth. To facilitate its dissemination, Familias Unidas was shortened from a 12-week intervention to a 6-week intervention and evaluated. We hypothesized that brief Familias Unidas would be efficacious in reducing substance use and unsafe sexual behaviors relative to a comparison condition.
methodsWe randomized 160 ninth-grade Latino adolescents and their families to brief Familias Unidas or a community practice control condition. Adolescents were surveyed at baseline and 6, 12, and 24 months after baseline.
resultsAt 24 months, youth randomized to brief Familias Unidas had a significantly lower sexual initiation rate (34.0%) relative to control (55.0%), p = .02. Brief Familias Unidas also increased positive parenting. Moderation analyses revealed that brief Familias Unidas was significantly associated with decreased substance use initiation among girls (30.4% vs. 64.0%, respectively; p = .02), but not boys (28.0% vs. 26.7%, respectively; p = .91). Brief Familias Unidas was also significantly associated with reduced unsafe sex among adolescents aged 15 years or less (p < .001), but not among older adolescents (p = .37). Moderating effects were also found for family-level variables.
conclusionsBrief Familias Unidas was efficacious in reducing sex initiation and improving positive parenting. Moderation analyses suggested that brief Familias Unidas was efficacious in reducing substance use initiation and unsafe sex for certain Hispanic adolescent subgroups, highlighting the importance of conducting moderation analyses, and of targeting interventions for specific subgroups.
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