Guiding Good Choices for Health: Offering Universal Family-Focused Prevention to Parents of Adolescents in Pediatric Primary Care

Margaret Kuklinski, Ph.D.
University of Washington

ABSTRACT:
In this presentation, Dr. Kuklinski will briefly describe her role as a prevention scientist and health economist at the Social Development Research Group. She will then turn attention to the Guiding Good Choices for Health study, a test of the feasibility and effectiveness of offering Guiding Good Choices to parents in three large integrated healthcare systems in California, Colorado, and Michigan. This study is part of the NIH Healthcare Systems Research Collaboratory, a cross-institute effort that aims to implement large-scale research studies that engage healthcare delivery organizations as partners. Dr. Kuklinski will describe the Guiding Good Choices intervention, opportunities for extending the reach of effective prevention approaches through primary care, the design and key questions being addressed in the study, implications of COVID-19, and preliminary learnings from early implementation.