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Intervention to Improve Parent Communication About Sexuality

Who can join

Ages 12 to 100 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome

Youth participants are:

* identify as a cisgender sexual minority male (e.g., gay or bisexual)
* be between ages 12-18 years
* able to comprehend spoken English
* resides in the United States
* consents or assents to study participation

Parent participants are:

* the parent, legal guardians, legal custodians (hereinafter "parent") of gay or bisexual adolescent
* age 18 or older
* able to comprehend spoken English
* resides in the United States
* consents to study participation
* consents to their child's study participation

About the study

The study is centered on helping parents answer and meet the sexuality-specific questions and needs of gay or bisexual males. This study seeks to test the efficacy of Parents ASSIST as a parent-child sexuality communication intervention that educates and trains parents to be purveyors of inclusive health information as gay or bisexual sons come of age at home.

What is being tested

• Parents ASSIST (behavioral)

Sponsor: University of Pennsylvania · Participants: 476 · Started: May 1, 2026

Contact the study team

• Dalmacio D Flores, PhD · Phone: 4043944593

Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT07672067

Locations in the U.S.

From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.