Intervention to Improve Parent Communication About Sexuality
University of Pennsylvania · with Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) · NCT07672067
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Key facts
- Compensation
- Not posted. Ask the study team before screening.
- Who can join
- Ages 12–100 · All sexes
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
- Study type
- Interventional · Not applicable
- Target enrollment
- 476
- US sites recruiting
- 1
- Study start
- May 1, 2026
- Record last updated
- July 15, 2026
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What the study is about
The study is centered on helping parents answer and meet the sexuality-specific questions and needs of gay or bisexual males. This study seeks to test the efficacy of Parents ASSIST as a parent-child sexuality communication intervention that educates and trains parents to be purveyors of inclusive health information as gay or bisexual sons come of age at home.
Being studied: Parents ASSIST
Conditions: HIV/STI Incidence; Communication About Health Information
Eligibility criteria
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Youth participants are
- identify as a cisgender sexual minority male (e.g., gay or bisexual)
- be between ages 12-18 years
- able to comprehend spoken English
- resides in the United States
- consents or assents to study participation
Parent participants are
- the parent, legal guardians, legal custodians (hereinafter "parent") of gay or bisexual adolescent
- age 18 or older
- able to comprehend spoken English
- resides in the United States
- consents to study participation
- consents to their child's study participation
Recruiting US locations
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Site contact: Dalmacio D Flores, PhD · 404-394-4593 · dalmacio@nursing.upenn.edu
Study contacts (from the official record)
- Dalmacio D Flores, PhD · 4043944593 · dalmacio@nursing.upenn.edu
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