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. 2015 Mar;25(2):181-189.
doi: 10.1177/1049731514524030.

Unintended Effects of an Intervention Supporting Mexican-Heritage Youth: Decreased Parent Heavy Drinking

Lela Rankin Williams  1 , Flavio F Marsiglia  2 , Adrienne Baldwin  2 , Stephanie Ayers  2
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Unintended Effects of an Intervention Supporting Mexican-Heritage Youth: Decreased Parent Heavy Drinking

Lela Rankin Williams et al. Res Soc Work Pract. 2015 Mar.

Abstract

Objective: To assess the impact of a parenting intervention, Familias: Preparando la Nueva Generación (FPNG), intended to support children, on parents heavy drinking. We hypothesized that parent participants of FPNG would reduce their heavy drinking at 1-year follow-up.

Methods: Parents (N = 281) of middle school children from a large, low-income metropolitan area in the Southwest United States participated in a randomized control trial over 2 years.

Results: A logistic regression analysis using the maximum likelihood test determined that at Wave 3, parents receiving FPNG reduced heavy drinking behaviors compared to parents in the youth-only condition (odds ratio = .86, p < .05).

Conclusions: Participating in the parenting program can effectively curb heavy drinking behaviors in parents-an important mechanism through which one may expect changes in youth risk behavior. The practice, policy, and research implications of these unintended findings are promising to the overall effectiveness of a parenting intervention for Mexican-heritage families.

Keywords: alcohol use; community-based participatory research; early adolescence; parent intervention; randomized control trial.

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Figure 1
Methods for Familias Preparando la Nueva Generación.
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Figure 2
Percentage of parents who drank heavily by condition and wave (N = 281). PY = parent intervention + youth intervention, Y = youth C = control group (no intervention).
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Figure 3
Logistic regression model of the parenting intervention (vs. youth-only) and the Control Condition (vs. Youth Only) on Parent Heavy Drinking (Wave 3 [W3]) (N = 281). R2 = 24.6 *p < .05. **p < .01. ***p < .001.
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