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Health Education Research, Vol. 14, No. 3, 421-426, June 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

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Padres Trabajando por la Paz: a randomized trial of a parent education intervention to prevent violence among middle school children

N. G. Murray, S. H. Kelder1, G. S. Parcel1, R. Frankowski1 and P. Orpinas2

Department of Health and Human Performance, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204–5331,
1 Center for Health Promotion Research and Development, UT–Houston School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, and
2 Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-3422, USA

This paper reports the results of a randomized trial to test the effectiveness of a theoretically derived intervention designed to increase parental monitoring among Hispanic parents of middle school students. Role model story newsletters developed through the process of Intervention Mapping were mailed to half of a subsample of parents whose children participated in Students for Peace, a comprehensive violence prevention program. The results indicated that parents in the experimental condition (N = 38) who had lower social norms for monitoring at baseline reported higher norms after the intervention than the parents in the control condition (N = 39) (P = 0.009). Children of parents in the experimental group reported slightly higher levels of monitoring at follow-up across baseline values, whereas control children who reported moderate to high levels of monitoring at pre-test reported lower levels at follow-up (P = 0.04). These newsletters are a population-based strategy for intervention with parents that show some promise for comprehensive school-based interventions for youth.


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