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Health and Resilience Projects: Foundations

Can Family-Centered Prevention Programming Reduce Neuroimmune Vulnerabilities for Drug Use and Cardiometabolic Risk Among African American Adolescents? A Randomized Prevention Trial

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About This Trial

The Health and Resilience Project (HARP): Foundations is investigating the efficacy of the Strong African American Families (SAAF) intervention in promoting the health and well being of African American adolescents. Youth age 10-13 and their primary caregivers are randomly assigned to receive SAAF or to a control group. Participants complete baseline and follow-up measures regarding vulnerability to substance use based on a neuroimmune model of stress coping.

Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)

Who May Qualify: Youth: - Self reported African American or Black; - Age 10-13 Parents: - Primary caregiver for youth, - Resides in same household as youth. Who Should NOT Join This Trial: Youth : - Contraindications for MRI scanning (e.g., metal in body, traumatic brain injury, claustrophobia, pregnancy), - Youth with chronic illnesses or medication regimens that would affect inflammatory panels (e.g., diabetes, congenital heart disease, asthma, cancers). Parent: - Conditions (e.g., severe disability, psychoses) that would prevent participation in the SAAF intervention or completing self-report measures. Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.

Original Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: Youth: * Self reported African American or Black; * Age 10-13 Parents: * Primary caregiver for youth, * Resides in same household as youth. Exclusion Criteria: Youth : * Contraindications for MRI scanning (e.g., metal in body, traumatic brain injury, claustrophobia, pregnancy), * Youth with chronic illnesses or medication regimens that would affect inflammatory panels (e.g., diabetes, congenital heart disease, asthma, cancers). Parent: * Conditions (e.g., severe disability, psychoses) that would prevent participation in the SAAF intervention or completing self-report measures.

Treatments Being Tested

BEHAVIORAL

SAAF

A 7 session online intervention designed to augment protective processes associated with deterrence of substance use

OTHER

Receipt of parenting book

Parents will receive a copy of the book, Parenting for Liberation: A Guide for Raising Black Children

Locations (1)

Center for Family Research
Athens, Georgia, United States