Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01269086

Enrollment

300

Registered

2011-01-04

Start date

2010-09-30

Completion date

2011-05-31

Last updated

2011-05-27

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Conditions

Adolescent Health Services, Family, Family Practice, Preventive Medicine, Primary Heath Care

Keywords

Primary Heath Care, Preventive Medicine, Adolescent Health Services, Spouses, Family, Family Practice

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a systematic family assessment in adult preventive health visits increases the detection of risk factors in the spouse or adolescent child of the screened person.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALFamily Preventive Visit

Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

SCREENING

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years.

Exclusion criteria

* Living with single parents. * Does not accept participating in the study.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Composite outcome: Family Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple and the adolescent child; and risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of marital or parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent/spouse.

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Composite outcome: Couple Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple, and the presence of marital relationship problems detected by the spouse.
Composite outcome: Adolescent Risk Factors	1 month	The composite outcome is conformed by: smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, risk of suicide, risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent.
Type of health plan for follow up	1 month	The health plan will be categorized in comprehensive bio-psycho-social health plans or only biomedical health plans.
Diagnostic accuracy of adults to diagnose risk factors in their spouse or adolescent child.	1 month	We will assess sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios of parents to detect risk factors in their spouse and child.

Countries

Chile

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026