Familias Unidas for high risk adolescents: Study design of a cultural adaptation and randomized controlled trial of a U.S. drug and sexual risk behavior intervention in Ecuador.
- Authors
- Jacobs, Petra
- Format
- Article
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Developing, testing and implementing evidence-based prevention interventions are important in decreasing substance use and sexual risk behavior among adolescents. This process requires research expertise, infrastructure, resources and decades of research testing, which might not always be feasible for low resource countries. Adapting and testing interventions proven to be efficacious in similar cultures might circumvent the time and costs of implementing evidence-based interventions in new settings. This paper describes the two-phase study, including training and development of the research infrastructure in the Ecuadorian university necessary to implement a randomized controlled trial.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26850901
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- CULTURAL ADAPTATION
DRUGS
FAMILY-BASED INTERVENTION
HISPANIC ADOLESCENTS
RANDOMIZED TRIAL
UNPROTECTED SEXUAL BEHAVIOR
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- closedAccess