Assessing elements of a family approach to reduce adolescent drinking frequency: parent-adolescent relationship, knowledge management and keeping secrets.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To estimate (1) the associations between parent-adolescent relationship, parental knowledge and subsequent adolescent drinking frequency and (2) the influence of alcohol use on parental knowledge.

Design

Path analysis of school based cohort study with annual surveys.

Setting

Post-primary schools from urban and intermediate/rural areas in Northern Ireland.

Participants

A total of 4937 post-primary school students aged approximately 11 years in 2000 followed until approximately age 16 years in 2005.

Measurements

Pupil-reported measures of: frequency of alcohol use; parent-child relationship quality; subdimensions of parental monitoring: parental control, parental solicitation, child disclosure and child secrecy.

Findings

Higher levels of parent

SUBMITTER: McCann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4949705 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature