Parenting Intervention at Age 11 and Cotinine Levels at Age 20 Among African American Youth.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study was designed to test the hypothesis that African American preadolescents who participated in a family-centered parenting intervention at age 11 would show lower levels of cotinine, a biomarker for recent smoking, at age 20 than would similar participants in the control condition. The study was also designed to test the hypothesis that prevention-induced increases in supportive parenting would account for any prevention effects that emerged.

Methods

African American parents and their 11-year-old children in the rural southern United States were assigned randomly to the Strong African American Families program or to a control condition. Parents provided self-reported data on supportive parenting when the youth were 11 and 16 years of age. When the youth w

SUBMITTER: Chen YF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5495525 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature