Talking parents out of unnecessary brain scans and repeatedly informing them that a high percentage of concussions will not cause lingering symptoms may be the best medicine given by concussion doctors.
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.
Objective To evaluate a worksite based parenting programme— Talking Parents, Healthy Teens designed to help parents learn to address sexual health with their adolescent children.
26 We developed Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a theory based worksite parenting programme to help parents become more comfortable and skilled at communicating with adolescents about sexual health.
Intervention Talking Parents, Healthy Teens consists of eight weekly one hour sessions at worksites for parents of adolescent children in 6th-10th grade (about ages 11-16 years). 11-16 years
Talking Parents, Healthy Teens is a worksite based programme that applies the principles of worksite health promotion to help parents learn to communicate with adolescents about sexual health and risk reduction.
