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

作者：Williams Lela Rankin^*; Marsiglia Flavio F; Baldwin Adrienne; Ayers Stephanie

来源：Research on Social Work Practice, 2015, 25(2): 181-189.

DOI：10.1177/1049731514524030

• alcohol use
• parent intervention
• community-based participatory research
• randomized control trial
• early adolescence

Objective: To assess the impact of a parenting intervention, Familias: Preparando la Nueva Generacion (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 parentsan 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.

• 出版日期2015-3