Rationale and design for eHealth Familias Unidas Primary Care: A drug use, sexual risk behavior, and sti preventive intervention for hispanic youth in Pediatric primary care clinics

Family-based behavioral interventions are efficacious and effective in preventing drug use and sexual risk behaviors; unfortunately, they have not been evaluated and disseminated in pediatric primary care practice, where they can have a significant impact. There is an increased focus on integrating parenting interventions into primary care to reduce health disparities among ethnic minorities such as Hispanics. Although Hispanic youth demonstrate higher levels of drug use and sexual risk behaviors than their non-Hispanic counterparts, few parenting interventions are available for Hispanic youth, and none have been delivered specifically to Hispanic adolescents in primary care.

Source: Contemporary Clinical Trials - November 16, 2018 Category: Radiology Authors: Guillermo Prado, Yannine Estrada, Lourdes M. Rojas, Monica Bahamon, Hilda Pantin, Meera Nagarsheth, Lisa Gwynn, Audrey Y. Ofir, Lourdes Q. Forster, Nicole Torres, C. Hendricks Brown Source Type: research