None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
The primary purpose of the Resilient Families intervention is to help students and parents develop knowledge, skills, and support networks to promote adolescent health and wellbeing during the early years of secondary school. The main hypothesis is that students in the Resilient Families schools will show improvements in family relationships and reductions in depression, substance use and antisocial behaviour relative to the control school students.
Interventions
The Resilient Families intervention is a school-based, prevention program designed to help students and their parents develop knowledge, skills, and support networks to promote adolescent health and wellbeing during the first two years of secondary school (Years 7 and 8 in Victoria, Australia). The five intervention components are 1) a 10-session student curriculum delivered by Year 7 teachers during "Health or Pastoral Care" classes; 2) The Parenting Adolescents Quiz. A parent education evenin
The Resilient Families intervention is a school-based, prevention program designed to help students and their parents develop knowledge, skills, and support networks to promote adolescent health and wellbeing during the first two years of secondary school (Years 7 and 8 in Victoria, Australia). The five intervention components are 1) a 10-session student curriculum delivered by Year 7 teachers during "Health or Pastoral Care" classes; 2) The Parenting Adolescents Quiz. A parent education evening delivered in a 2-hour, large-group, evening forum offered for all Year 7 parents at the school; 3) Parenting Adolescents: A Creative Experience. An 8-session, parent education program conducted with small-groups of Year 7 and 8 parents who volunteer to attend 2-hour evenings at the school; 4) Policies and programs implemented by the school to build a "community of parents" and improve communication with and support for parents during the early secondary school years; 5) Parent education handbooks mailed to all Year 8 parents. Twelve schools have been randomly selected and have agreed to implement the intervention and they are being compared with 12 randomly selected control schools that were not offered the five intervention components. Students and parents complete similar surveys in both the intervention and control schools to enable evaluation.
Sponsors
Associate Professor John Toumbourou
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
SCHOOLS: A random sample of Victorian, metropolitan Government and Catholic Schools were approached. STUDENTS AND PARENTS: Students and their parents were universally targeted within school Year 7.
Exclusion criteria
SCHOOLS: Non-metropolitan and Independent schools were not approached and non-consenting schools were replaced. STUDENTS AND PARENTS: Where parents did not return signed consent, students and parents were excluded from the survey and in the intervention schools these parents were not sent the parent education handbook.
Outcome results
None listed