The Gender Inclusive Sexuality Talks Program

Conditions

• Communication About Health Information
• HIV/STI Incidence

Eligibility Criteria

Sex

ALL

Age

12 Years - 100 Years

Healthy Volunteers

Not accepted

Interventions

• The Gender Inclusive Sexuality Talks Program — BEHAVIORAL
  The GIST Program is a 5-session intervention where an interventionist will facilitate sessions that will include 8-12 parents per group. Each parent will have access to intervention content (e.g., videos, activities) across five synchronous sessions. Session I will focus on the issue of coming out and its impact on the family as well as on youth mental health. Session II centers on communication-based content. Sessions III and IV focuses on topic-centered content to address the knowledge gap parents have reported regarding general LGBTQ concerns and builds on the communication skills learned in Session I. Session V provides a communication recap and focuses on how parents may have follow-up conversations with healthcare providers. In between the sessions, asynchronous interactive homework assignments will be provided to review concepts learned in the previous sessions and to initiate joint activities between parents and youth.
• GIST Control — BEHAVIORAL
  The control arm consists of access to five online modules. Parents in this condition will be able to view video content focused on health issues germane for LGBTQ youth that are not focused on sexual health. These outcomes are on bullying, alcohol and tobacco use, sleep hygiene and body image concerns.

Study Details

The study is centered on helping parents answer and meet the sexuality-specific questions and needs of transgender, gender diverse, lesbian or bisexual female youth. This study seeks to test the efficacy of the GIST Program as a parent-child sexuality communication intervention that educates and trains parents to be purveyors of inclusive health information as transgender, gender diverse, lesbian or bisexual female youth come of age at home.

Key Dates

First listed

Sep 17, 2026

Start date

Jan 1, 2026

Status verified

Sep 2026

Primary completion

Dec 30, 2027

Completion

Dec 30, 2027

Study Design

Enrollment

300 participants (estimated)

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

CROSSOVER

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Arms

• Experimental: GIST Intervention Arm
  Parents randomized to this arm will receive five, online based group sessions.
• Active Comparator: Control Arm
  Parents randomized to this arm will have individual access to an online series of five modules that they can complete at their own pace. The content for each module are LGBTQ-specific health issues such as sleep hygiene, bullying, tobacco and alcohol use, and body image concerns.

Primary Outcome Measure

Parent-Adolescent Communication Quantity [ Time Frame: Baseline, 1 week, 3 months, 6 months ]

Central Contacts

• Dalmacio Flores, PhD, RN
  215-573-8253
  [email protected]

Locations (1)

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