SER Familia: A Family-Based Intervention Addressing Syndemic Conditions Among Latino Immigrant Families

Conditions

• Anxiety
• Depression
• HIV Infections
• Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
• Substance Abuse

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

12 Years - 100 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Accepted

Interventions

• SER Familia — BEHAVIORAL
  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).

Study Details

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.

Key Dates

Start date

Jun 30, 2025

Status verified

Apr 2026

Primary completion

Jul 31, 2028

Completion

Jan 31, 2029

Study Design

Enrollment

400 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

SEQUENTIAL

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: Familia SER (Salud, Estrés y Resilencia) Group
  Participants will attend six intervention sessions.
• No Intervention: Control Group
  Participants will not receive SER Familia sessions.

Primary Outcome Measure

Change in Parent Acculturative stress as measured by the Hispanic Stress Inventory (HSI-2) Immigrant Version [ Time Frame: From Enrollment to end of treatment at 6 weeks ]

Central Contacts

• Rosa Gonzalez-Guarda, PhD
  9196132634
  [email protected]
• Norma Garcia-Ortiz, BS
  9196849331
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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