Innovative Approach 1

The Impact of Interventions Designed to
Promote Parent-Child Communication about Sexuality

Douglas Kirby, Ph.D.
ETR Associates

Part 1: Table of Contents


Recommendations for Parent-Child Communication Program Evaluators

  • To address the limitations of previous studies
  • To employ experimental design to better infer causality
  • To include large sample sizes to detect programmatically meaningful results
  • To use improved measures of parent-child communication so that they can better take into account its complexity
  • To measure antecedents of adolescent sexual behavior and actual sexual behavior
  • To measure longer-term effects
  • To measure the differential impact in groups by gender, race/ethnicity, and age

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