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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Person-to-Person Interventions Targeted to Parents and Other Caregivers to Improve Adolescent Health: A Community Guide Systematic Review

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Systematic Review

Source: The Guide to Community Preventive Services

Last Reviewed: 2007

Workgroups: Early and Middle Childhood Workgroup, Social Determinants of Health Workgroup

The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends person-to-person interventions intended to change adolescents’ risk and protective behaviors by improving their caregivers’ parenting skills. These interventions can be face-to-face or over the phone, and they take place outside clinical settings. Studies included in CPSTF’s review involved interventions that used information or behavioral strategies to improve parenting skills.

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Objectives related to this resource (2)

Increase the proportion of adolescents who have an adult they can talk to about serious problems — AH‑03
Little or no detectable change
Increase the proportion of children and adolescents who communicate positively with their parents — EMC‑01
Getting worse

Suggested Citation

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Guide to Community Preventive Services. (2007). Adolescent Health - Person-to-Person Interventions Targeted to Parents and Other Caregivers. Retrieved from https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/adolescent-health-person-person-interventions-improve-caregivers-parenting-skills