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. 2019 Aug;63(2):35-58.

Alcohol Use among Latinx Early Adolescents: Exploring the Role of the Family

Javier F Boyas  1 , Tatiana Villarreal-Otálora  1 , Flavio F Marsiglia  2
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Alcohol Use among Latinx Early Adolescents: Exploring the Role of the Family

Javier F Boyas et al. J Alcohol Drug Educ. 2019 Aug.

Abstract

The present study describes results of a randomized three-group repeated measures study that examined whether augmenting a culturally-based parent education program (Familias) can strengthen the effects of a youth intervention (kiR) in reducing rates of alcohol consumption among Latinx adolescents. A stratified random sample of 462 Latinx early adolescents from a Southwestern city participated in this study. Ordinary Least Squares regression results show that receiving the parental and youth curricula components and two other family practices were significantly associated with lower rates of alcohol consumption at Wave 2. Findings support the notion that prevention efforts that include a culturally grounded parent component could be a more effective strategy to help Latinx youth refrain from alcohol use than youth-only programs.

Keywords: Latinx adolescents; alcohol preventive interventions; family-based interventions.

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Conflict of interest statement

CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare no conflicts of interest. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.

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