Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2007
A randomized trial of Parents Who Care: effects on key outcomes at 24-month follow-up.
Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers, 11 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
57 citing papers in PubMed, 11 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association of Sexual Health Interventions With Sexual Health Outcomes in Black Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA pediatrics · 2020Pooled it
- Family-based prevention programmes for alcohol use in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Examining subgroup effects by socioeconomic status of public health interventions targeting multiple risk behaviour in adolescence.BMC public health · 2018Pooled it
- Individual-, family-, and school-level interventions targeting multiple risk behaviours in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2018Pooled it
- For Whom Do Parenting Interventions to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use Work?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Pooled it
- Effective Parenting Interventions to Reduce Youth Substance Use: A Systematic Review.Pediatrics · 2016Pooled it
- A component-centered meta-analysis of family-based prevention programs for adolescent substance use.Clinical psychology review · 2016Pooled it
- The Effectiveness of Family Interventions in Preventing Adolescent Illicit Drug Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2015Pooled it
- Programs to Strengthen Parent-Adolescent Communication About Reproductive Health: A Systematic Review.American journal of preventive medicine · 2015Pooled it
- Family-based programmes for preventing smoking by children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- Mentoring adolescents to prevent drug and alcohol use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2011Pooled it
- Two-Year Risk Behavior Outcomes from Connecting, a Prevention Program for Caregivers and Youth in Foster Care.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Trial
- Project STRONG: an Online, Parent-Son Intervention for the Prevention of Dating Violence among Early Adolescent Boys.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Does Giving Parents Their Choice of Interventions for Child Behavior Problems Improve Child Outcomes?Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Trial
- Evaluation of the Olweus Bully Prevention Program in an Urban School System in the USA.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2018Trial
- Randomized trial of parent training to prevent adolescent problem behaviors during the high school transition.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2016Trial
- The effects of moms and teens for safe dates: a dating abuse prevention program for adolescents exposed to domestic violence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2015Trial
- Long-term effects of staying connected with your teen® on drug use frequency at age 20.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Trial
- Parental Competencies as Familial Protective Factors in Adolescent Substance Use Prevention: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Annual Research Review: Beyond the target - understanding crossover effects in family-centered prevention.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Review
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Abstract
This study was designed to test the efficacy of Parents Who Care (PWC), a seven-session universal prevention program which includes parenting, youth, and family components designed to prevent substance use and other problem behaviors. Using an intent-to-treat experimental design, this study tests the program efficacy across race within a balanced sample of European American (EA) and African American (AA) youth and their parents (n = 331 n AA = 163; n EA = 168). Families were recruited, randomly assigned to three conditions (group-administered [PA], self-administered with telephone support [SA], and no-treatment control) and the intervention was administered when the adolescents were in the eighth grade. Analyses on key teen outcomes of the Parent's Who Care program at 24-month follow-up are reported here and include perceptions of drug use harm; favorable attitudes about drug use; delinquent and violent behavior; and initiation into cigarette, alcohol, other drug use, or sexual activity. Repeated measures mixed model regressions found no effect of the intervention on rate of change in attitudes about drug use or frequency of delinquent or violent behavior. Regression analyses with multiple imputations for missing data detected group differences in means at 24-month follow-up. Both program formats reduced favorable attitudes toward drug use among youth (SA d = 0.39, PA d = 0.22); and AA youth in the self-administered intervention reported significantly less violent behavior than their control counterparts (d = 0.45). No effects were found for drug use harm or delinquency. Finally, logistic regression predicting a combined outcome measure of initiation of alcohol, tobacco, drug use, and/or sexual activity found AA youth in both the group- and self-administered intervention conditions significantly less likely to initiate substance use and/or sexual activity than those in the control condition. Odds ratios indicated the chances of initiating sex or substance use were reduced by almost 70% (OR = 0.31) for AA teens in the SA condition compared to controls, and 75% (OR = 0.25) for the AA teens in the PA compared to controls.
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