Linking Families Together Study- A Randomized Trial to Raise Parental Monitoring
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Conditions studied: Adolescent Behaviors, Substance Abuse
In brief
In this study, we will evaluate the efficacy and sustainability of the Linking Families Together (LIFT) intervention to improve parental monitoring during the transition from middle to high school a particularly risky time for students' academic performance and health behaviors. This study is based in middle schools around Los Angeles County a region with a high prevalence of teen risky health behaviors. The aims of our study are: 1. To conduct a randomized trial of the LIFT intervention and examine whether providing detailed academic information to parents during their child's 7th and 8th grade increases parental monitoring at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. We will partner with 3-10 middle schools and recruit 500 student-parent dyads: 250 will be randomized to the intervention arm and 250 to the usual care control group. 2. To determine whether the LIFT intervention improves students' academic outcomes, as measured by grades, attendance, and standardized test scores at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up. 3. To evaluate whether the LIFT intervention lowers rates of adolescent risky health behaviors, specifically substance use (alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, and other drugs) at the end of the two year intervention and one year follow up.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT02129153
- Run by
- University of California, Los Angeles
- People needed
- 318
- Starts
- 2014-09-01
- Expected to finish
- 2016-08-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2017-02-08
Who can join
Age: 11 and older, up to 15. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- For adults, must be a parent/guardian of a student at a participating middle school
- For minors, must be a student at a participating middle school
- Must speak English or Spanish
- Entering 7th grade in Fall 2014 at one of the middle schools participating in the study
You may not qualify if…
- None
Where it is running
- UCLA — Los Angeles, California, United States
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