Talking Parents, Healthy Teens: A Worksite-based Program for Parents to Promote Adolescent Sexual Health

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• Journal Article:
  Preventing Chronic Disease (PCD)
• Personal Author:
  Schuster, Mark A ; Eastman, Karen L ; Corona, Rosalie
• Description:
  Parents play an important role in the sexual health of their adolescent children. Based on previous research, formative research, and theories of behavioral change, we developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, an intervention designed to help parents improve communication with their adolescent children, promote healthy adolescent sexual development, and reduce adolescent sexual risk behaviors. We conduct the parenting program at worksites to facilitate recruitment and retention of participants. The program consists of 8 weekly 1-hour sessions during the lunch hour. In this article, we review the literature that identifies parental influences on adolescent sexual behavior, summarize our formative research, present the theoretical framework we used to develop Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, describe the program's components and intervention strategies, and offer recommendations based on our experiences developing the program. By targeting parents at their worksites, this program represents an innovative approach to promoting adolescent sexual health. This article is intended to be helpful to health educators and clinicians designing programs for parents, employers implementing health-related programs, and researchers who may consider designing and evaluating such worksite-based programs.
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adolescent Behavior Child Child Rearing Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Health Promotion Humans Parent-Child Relations Parents Program Development Sex Education Sexual Behavior Special Topic Workplace

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• Source:
  Prev Chronic Dis. 2006; 3(4).
• ISSN:
  1545-1151
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  R01 MH61202/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States ; U48/CCU915773/PHS HHS/United States ; U48/DP000056/DP/NCCDPHP CDC HHS/United States
• Volume:
  3
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  Preventing Chronic Disease
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