The Strong African American Families Program: translating research into prevention programming |
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| Authors: | Brody Gene H Murry Velma McBride Gerrard Meg Gibbons Frederick X Molgaard Virginia McNair Lily Brown Anita C Wills Thomas A Spoth Richard L Luo Zupei Chen Yi-Fu Neubaum-Carlan Eileen |
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| Institution: | Department of Child and Family Development and Center for Family Research, University of Georgia, Athens, 30602-4527, USA. gbrody@uga.edu |
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| Abstract: | A randomized prevention trial contrasted families who took part in the Strong African American Families Program (SAAF), a preventive intervention for rural African American mothers and their 11-year-olds, with control families. SAAF is based on a contextual model positing that regulated, communicative parenting causes changes in factors protecting youths from early alcohol use and sexual activity. Parenting variables included involvement-vigilance, racial socialization, communication about sex, and clear expectations for alcohol use. Youth protective factors included negative attitudes about early alcohol use and sexual activity, negative images of drinking youths, resistance efficacy, a goal-directed future orientation, and acceptance of parental influence. Intervention-induced changes in parenting mediated the effect of intervention group influences on changes in protective factors over a 7-month period. |
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