Use of Web-Based Parent-Adolescent Health Promotion Program Among Puerto Ricans.
Antonia M Villarruel, Nelson Varas-Díaz, Alexandra Hanlon and 3 others
PMID 30067581WHAT IT FOUND
Only 101 of 492 parents revisited the Cuídalos website after completing it.
Most did not because they lacked easy computer access or did not know how to log back in, not because they disliked it.
Key findings
01Only 101 of 492 parents reported accessing the Cuídalos website after completing it.
02Among parents who did not access it again, 48.6% said they lacked easy computer access and 20.3% said they did not know how to access it; only 0.7% said they disliked it or had no interest.
03Parents with a high school education or less accessed the program after completion more often than college-educated parents (33.6% vs. 22.7%).
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What it does not show
Login tracking began five months after the study started, so the analysis used 492 parents from 660 recruited dyads. The study measured website access and logins, not whether the programs changed sexual communication, health behaviour, or health outcomes. The sample was from metropolitan San Juan, Puerto Rico, and may not generalise to mainland Puerto Rican, other Latino, or father participants. Reasons for not accessing were limited to a fixed list, with no write-in option, so other barriers such as time may have been missed. Most parents were female and college educated, despite low average income, which may not reflect all families. The platform was web-based, not mobile, so results may not apply to mobile delivery.
Declared interests
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that the web program improved sexual communication or health outcomes. This analysis measured whether parents accessed the website after completing it, not whether the program changed behaviour.