Salud, Estrés y Resilencia en Familias/ Health, Stress, and Resilience Among Latino Families in the US
Purpose
This study aims to prevent syndemic health conditions by decreasing acculturative stress and promoting resilience via SER Familia (Salud, Estrés y Resilencia en Familias/ Health, Stress, and Resilience in Families), a family-based intervention. SER Familia is a six-session intervention co-developed and delivered by community health workers (CHWs) that uses strategies to reduce acculturative stress, promote resilience, improve parent-child and family level health, while simultaneously helping families maintain strong social networks and better navigate community resources to address social determinants of health (SDOH). More specifically, investigators aim to: 1) Examine the efficacy of SER Familia to prevent or reduce the syndemic comprised of substance abuse, IPV, HIV risk, depression, and anxiety among Parents and Youth; and 2) Identify how individual, family, and community mechanisms of change related to acculturative stress and resilience mediates the effect of SER Familia.
Conditions
- Substance Abuse
- Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
- HIV Infections
- Depression
- Anxiety
Eligibility
- Eligible Ages
- Under 99 Years
- Eligible Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- Eligible participants must identify as Hispanic/Latino/a/x/e, - be a first generation immigrant parent or parental figure (Parent) - have a child (Youth) aged 12-17 - speak English and/or Spanish
Exclusion Criteria
- Families planning to move within two years will be excluded
Study Design
- Phase
- N/A
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel Assignment
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- None (Open Label)
Arm Groups
| Arm | Description | Assigned Intervention |
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Experimental Familia SER (Salud, Estrés y Resilencia) Group |
Participants will attend six intervention sessions. |
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No Intervention Control Group |
Participants will not receive SER Familia sessions. |
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Recruiting Locations
More Details
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sponsor
- Duke University
