TY - JOUR
T1 - A web-based, health promotion program for adolescent girls and their mothers who reside in public housing
AU - Schwinn, Traci M.
AU - Schinke, Steven
AU - Fang, Lin
AU - Kandasamy, Suganthi
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) grant no. R21DA24618 . NIDA had no role in the study design, data collection or analyses, the writing of the report, or the decision to submit the manuscript for publication.
PY - 2014/4
Y1 - 2014/4
N2 - This study tested a brief web-based, family-involvement health promotion program aimed at drug use, physical activity, and nutrition for adolescent girls, aged 10 to 12. years, who reside in public housing. Separately, girls (n= 67) and their mothers (n= 67) completed baseline measures online. Following baseline, 36 randomly assigned mother-daughter dyads jointly completed a 3-session, health promotion program online. Subsequently, all girls and mothers separately completed posttest and 5-month follow-up measures. Attrition at posttest and 5-month follow-up measures was 3% and 9%, respectively. At posttest, intervention-arm girls, relative to control-arm girls, reported greater mother-daughter communication and parental monitoring. Intervention-arm mothers reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness as well as increased vegetable intake and physical activity. At 5-month follow-up, intervention-arm girls and mothers, relative to those in the control arm, reported greater levels of parental monitoring. Intervention-arm girls also reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness, reduced stress, greater refusal skills, and increased fruit intake. Findings indicate the potential of a brief, web-based program to improve the health of low-income girls and their mothers.
AB - This study tested a brief web-based, family-involvement health promotion program aimed at drug use, physical activity, and nutrition for adolescent girls, aged 10 to 12. years, who reside in public housing. Separately, girls (n= 67) and their mothers (n= 67) completed baseline measures online. Following baseline, 36 randomly assigned mother-daughter dyads jointly completed a 3-session, health promotion program online. Subsequently, all girls and mothers separately completed posttest and 5-month follow-up measures. Attrition at posttest and 5-month follow-up measures was 3% and 9%, respectively. At posttest, intervention-arm girls, relative to control-arm girls, reported greater mother-daughter communication and parental monitoring. Intervention-arm mothers reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness as well as increased vegetable intake and physical activity. At 5-month follow-up, intervention-arm girls and mothers, relative to those in the control arm, reported greater levels of parental monitoring. Intervention-arm girls also reported greater mother-daughter communication and closeness, reduced stress, greater refusal skills, and increased fruit intake. Findings indicate the potential of a brief, web-based program to improve the health of low-income girls and their mothers.
KW - Family-based
KW - Gender-specific
KW - Health-promotion
KW - Public housing
KW - Web-based
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U2 - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.029
DO - 10.1016/j.addbeh.2013.11.029
M3 - Article
C2 - 24447886
AN - SCOPUS:84892648963
SN - 0306-4603
VL - 39
SP - 757
EP - 760
JO - Addictive Behaviors
JF - Addictive Behaviors
IS - 4
ER -