Understanding Parent Retention in Indicated Prevention
PI: Carole Hooven
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Carole Hooven
Research Assistant Professor
Psychosocial & Community Health
Box University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7262
Email: chooven@u.washington.edu
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- Sponsor: National Institutes of Health
- Project Period: 4/1/2006 - 3/31/2009
- Current Faculty
- Brooke Randell - Co-Investigator
- Kenneth Pike - Key Personnel
Parent participation is a significant challenge to family-focused prevention across all levels of prevention work but perhaps most challenging (and least studies) for indicated prevention programs with parents of at-risk teens. Parents of at-risk teens, and the teens themselves, often suffer a number of personal, family and economic hardships that can diminish a parent's interest and satisfaction in parenting, and affect willingness and ability to attend parenting sessions. AT the same time, because indicated prevention focuses on teens showing signs of risk, indicated programs ask more of participants in terms of time and level of involvement in order to be successful. The Parents as Partners (P as P) component of Project PAYS (Parent and Youth in Schools) was a response to NIDA's call for drug abuse prevention programs for high risk youth that included family intervention (PA 96-013). P as P requires a parent attend 15 sessions, a combination of home visits, parent group and parent-teen meetings designed to foster parenting skills and support teen success, and a number of strategies were used to recruit and retain parents. The resulting parent participation rates exceeded typical retention while showing a useful variation among parents: over 95% of 165 eligible parents attended at least one session, and more than half completed the series. The proposed study is a secondary analysis of parent retention in the P as P program, utilizing parent and youth self-report, interventionist process ratings and in-depth interviews to examine and model factors that enhance and impede parent participation |
