None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
This project will investigate whether the ABCD Parenting Young Adolescents Program assists parents to promote a range of factors known to protect adolescents from experiencing poor health outcomes and that delay or reduce their involvement in dangerous risk taking activities such as alcohol and other drugs. Specifically, the project will investigate whether participation in ABCD results in: improvements in parent-adolescent relationships; reductions in parent-adolescent conflicts; improvements in adolescent behaviour and improvements in parental confidence and wellbeing.
Interventions
Psycho-educational parenting intervention for parents of young adolescents (aged 10 -14 years). The program is a six session group program. Sessions are held across consecutive weeks with participants attending one two hour session per week for six weeks. The program is based on social learning principles and incorporates acceptance-based strategies. The program involves didactic and powerpoint presentation, modelling, role play, feedback and home practice.
Sponsors
Parenting Research Centre
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Prevention
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
Participants were included if: they were parents of a child aged between 10 and 14 years, were English speaking, had custody or regular access with their children and lived in the North and West Metropolitan Region of Melbourne, Australia
Exclusion criteria
Families were excluded if: the parent or adolescent had learning or developmental difficulties, the parent or adolescent had a mental illness, the adolescent had a medical or physical disability or the adoelscents were receiving other specialist services.
Outcome results
None listed