TY - JOUR
T1 - Cost of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens
T2 - A worksite-based intervention to promote parent-adolescent sexual health communication
AU - Ladapo, Joseph A.
AU - Elliott, Marc N.
AU - Bogart, Laura M.
AU - Kanouse, David E.
AU - Vestal, Katherine D.
AU - Klein, David J.
AU - Ratner, Jessica A.
AU - Schuster, Mark A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding was provided by National Institute of Mental Health (grant R01 MH61202 ) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (grants U48/CCU915773 and U48/DP000056 ).
PY - 2013/11
Y1 - 2013/11
N2 - Purpose: To examine the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed to help parents address sexual health with their adolescent children. Methods: We enrolled 535 parents with adolescent children at 13 worksites in southern California in a randomized trial. We used time and wage data from employees involved in implementing the program to estimate fixed and variable costs. We determined cost-effectiveness with nonparametric bootstrap analysis. For the intervention, parents participated in eight weekly 1-hour teaching sessions at lunchtime. The program included games, discussions, role plays, and videotaped role plays to help parents learn to communicate with their children about sex-related topics, teach their children assertiveness and decision-making skills, and supervise and interact with their children more effectively. Results: Implementing the program cost $543.03 (standard deviation, $289.98) per worksite in fixed costs, and $28.05 per parent (standard deviation, $4.08) in variable costs. At 9 months, this $28.05 investment per parent yielded improvements in number of sexual health topics discussed, condom teaching, and communication quality and openness. The cost-effectiveness was $7.42 per new topic discussed using parental responses and $9.18 using adolescent responses. Other efficacy outcomes also yielded favorable cost-effectiveness ratios. Conclusions: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens demonstrated the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a worksite-based parenting program to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health. Its cost is reasonable and is unlikely to be a significant barrier to adoption and diffusion for most worksites considering its implementation.
AB - Purpose: To examine the cost and cost-effectiveness of implementing Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a worksite-based parenting program designed to help parents address sexual health with their adolescent children. Methods: We enrolled 535 parents with adolescent children at 13 worksites in southern California in a randomized trial. We used time and wage data from employees involved in implementing the program to estimate fixed and variable costs. We determined cost-effectiveness with nonparametric bootstrap analysis. For the intervention, parents participated in eight weekly 1-hour teaching sessions at lunchtime. The program included games, discussions, role plays, and videotaped role plays to help parents learn to communicate with their children about sex-related topics, teach their children assertiveness and decision-making skills, and supervise and interact with their children more effectively. Results: Implementing the program cost $543.03 (standard deviation, $289.98) per worksite in fixed costs, and $28.05 per parent (standard deviation, $4.08) in variable costs. At 9 months, this $28.05 investment per parent yielded improvements in number of sexual health topics discussed, condom teaching, and communication quality and openness. The cost-effectiveness was $7.42 per new topic discussed using parental responses and $9.18 using adolescent responses. Other efficacy outcomes also yielded favorable cost-effectiveness ratios. Conclusions: Talking Parents, Healthy Teens demonstrated the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a worksite-based parenting program to promote parent-adolescent communication about sexual health. Its cost is reasonable and is unlikely to be a significant barrier to adoption and diffusion for most worksites considering its implementation.
KW - Adolescent sexual behavior
KW - Communication
KW - Cost
KW - Cost-effectiveness
KW - Health promotion
KW - Parent-child relations
KW - Sex education
KW - Workplace
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.11.015
DO - 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2012.11.015
M3 - Article
C2 - 23406890
AN - SCOPUS:84886789958
SN - 1054-139X
VL - 53
SP - 595
EP - 601
JO - Journal of Adolescent Health
JF - Journal of Adolescent Health
IS - 5
ER -