Mental and behavioral disorders due to alcohol use
Conditions
Interventions
The Famílias Fortes Program (PFF-BR 10-14) is the Brazilian adaptation of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP-UK 10-14), developed in the United Kingdom by Oxford Brookes University, and has been
Sponsors
Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP
Ministério da Mulher, da Família e dos Direitos Humanos
Eligibility
Age
12 Years to No maximum
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Families with at least one child or adolescent between 12 and 14 years old assisted by the CRAS (Social Assistance Reference Center) or similar service; at least one of the parents or guardians and a child or adolescent from the same family willing to participate in the program; availability to attend 7 meetings in 7 consecutive weeks, on the same day of the week, pre-defined; live within 1 kilometer of the CRAS (Social Assistance Reference Center).
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Families who do not live together, for example, the child is in the care of others; families with high needs (such as drug addiction, family breakdown and serious behavior problems that could interfere with the group's progress); families who are involved in a program that has the same objective or that participated in the Famílias Fortes program at another time.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcomes are: 1) for adolescents, initiation of alcohol use; 2) for parents, score on the parenting skills scale, assessed through pre- and post-intervention questionnaires, based on the change in reports before and after the intervention, comparing the control and intervention groups, through the finding of a variation of at least 5% in measurements. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes are: 1) quality of the family environment among parents; 2) among adolescents: prevalence of use of alcohol, tobacco, inhalants and marijuana, assessed through pre- and post-intervention questionnaires, based on the change in reports before and after the intervention, comparing the control and intervention groups, through the finding of a variation of at least 5% in measurements. | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactPatricia Galvão
Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Outcome results
None listed