Families Matter! Presexual risk prevention intervention

K.S. Miller, S.M. Lasswell, D.B. Riley and M.N. Poulsen

American Journal of Public Health, 2013, vol. 103, issue 11, e16-e20

Abstract: Parent-based HIV prevention programming may play an important role in reaching youths early to help establish lifelong patterns of safe and healthy sexual behaviors. Families Matter! is a 5-session, evidence-based behavioral intervention designed for primary caregivers of children aged 9 to 12 years to promote positive parenting and effective parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk reduction. The program's 5-step capacity-building model was implemented with local government, community, and faith-based partners in 8 sub-Saharan African countries with good intervention fidelity and high levels of participant retention. Families Matter! may be useful in other resource-constrained settings. Copyright © 2013 by the American Public Health Association®.

Keywords: Africa south of the Sahara; article; capacity building; child; child parent relation; cognitive therapy; family health; health promotion; human; Human immunodeficiency virus infection; methodology; nonbiological model; program evaluation; risk reduction; sexual behavior; cognitive therapy; health promotion; HIV Infections; procedures, Africa South of the Sahara; Capacity Building; Child; Cognitive Therapy; Family Health; Health Promotion; HIV Infections; Humans; Models, Organizational; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting; Program Evaluation; Risk Reduction Behavior; Sexual Behavior, Africa South of the Sahara; Capacity Building; Child; Cognitive Therapy; Family Health; Health Promotion; HIV Infections; Humans; Models, Organizational; Parent-Child Relations; Parenting; Program Evaluation; Risk Reduction Behavior; Sexual Behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301417

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