Preventive parenting intervention during childhood and young black adults' unhealthful behaviors: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Lifestyle variables such as drug use and excessive weight gain contribute to adult morbidity and mortality. This study was designed to determine whether participation in a preventive intervention designed to enhance supportive parenting can reduce drug use and body mass index (BMI) in young Black adults from disadvantaged neighborhoods.

Method

This study was conducted in the rural southeastern United States. Black parents and their 11-year-old children (517 families) were assigned randomly to the Strong African American Families (SAAF) prevention trial or a control condition. Data assessing neighborhood socioeconomic status and supportive parenting were obtained when the youths were ages 11 and 16. When youths were ages 19-21 and 25, drug use and BMI were measured.

SUBMITTER: Brody GH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10589912 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature