Family Preventive Visits to Detect Risk Factors in the Family

Overview

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a systematic family assessment in adult preventive health visits increases the detection of risk factors in the spouse or adolescent child of the screened person.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Screening
    • Masking: None (Open Label)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: May 2011

Interventions

  • Behavioral: Family Preventive Visit
    • Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • No Intervention: Usual Care
    • Traditional care with no systematic assessment of family member´s health problems or risk factors.
  • Experimental: Family Preventive Visit
    • Systematic assessment of health diseases or risk factors in the spouse and adolescent child.

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • Composite outcome: Family Risk Factors
    • Time Frame: 1 month
    • The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple and the adolescent child; and risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of marital or parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent/spouse.

Secondary Measures

  • Composite outcome: Couple Risk Factors
    • Time Frame: 1 month
    • The composite outcome is conformed by: detection of smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, suicide risk in the couple, and the presence of marital relationship problems detected by the spouse.
  • Composite outcome: Adolescent Risk Factors
    • Time Frame: 1 month
    • The composite outcome is conformed by: smoking, alcohol, substance abuse, major depression or other mental health disease, high emotional stress, risk of suicide, risk of pregnancy, risk of sexually transmitted diseases, risk of eating disorders, risk of school grade repetition or school drop-out in the adolescent child, and the presence of parent-child relationship problems detected by the parent.
  • Type of health plan for follow up
    • Time Frame: 1 month
    • The health plan will be categorized in comprehensive bio-psycho-social health plans or only biomedical health plans.
  • Diagnostic accuracy of adults to diagnose risk factors in their spouse or adolescent child.
    • Time Frame: 1 month
    • We will assess sensibility, specificity, positive and negative predictive values, positive and negative likelihood ratios of parents to detect risk factors in their spouse and child.

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • Parents of adolescents between 14-17 years. Exclusion Criteria:

  • Living with single parents. – Does not accept participating in the study.

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: N/A

Maximum Age: N/A

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Collaborator
    • Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Solidaridad
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Diego Garcia-Huidobro, Family Medicine Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
  • Overall Official(s)
    • Diego Garcia-Huidobro, MD, Principal Investigator, Family Medicine Department, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

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