Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2009
Universal intervention effects on substance use among young adults mediated by delayed adolescent substance initiation.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 76 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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76 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
- Public target interventions to reduce the inappropriate use of medicines or medical procedures: a systematic review.Implementation science : IS · 2020Pooled it
- Family-based prevention programmes for alcohol use in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled 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
- Family-based programmes for preventing smoking by children and adolescents.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2015Pooled it
- School-based programmes for preventing smoking.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- The prevention of child and adolescent anxiety: a meta-analytic review.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2011Pooled it
- Six-month follow-up of the 'Mi Mejor Plan' school-based prevention program: a pilot cluster randomized controlled trial among early adolescents in Chile.BMC public health · 2026Trial
- Applying the PROSPER prevention delivery system with middle schools: Emerging adulthood effects on substance misuse and conduct problem behaviors through 14 years past baseline.Child development · 2022Trial
- Testing a Model of Universal Prevention Effects on Adolescent Relationships and Marijuana Use as Pathways to Young Adult Outcomes.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Trial
- Prevention of alcohol use in older teens: A randomized trial of an online family prevention program.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2019Trial
- Effect of Middle School Interventions on Alcohol Misuse and Abuse in Mexican American High School Adolescents: Five-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Predictors of Outreach Meetings Among Substance Using Homeless Youth.Community mental health journal · 2017Trial
- 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
- A randomized, controlled trial of the family check-up model in public secondary schools: Examining links between parent engagement and substance use progressions from early adolescence to adulthood.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2016Trial
- Effects of Adolescent Universal Substance Misuse Preventive Interventions on Young Adult Depression Symptoms: Mediational Modeling.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2016Trial
- Changing Latino Adolescents' Substance Use Norms and Behaviors: the Effects of Synchronized Youth and Parent Drug Use Prevention Interventions.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2016Trial
- Parent and adolescent effects of a universal group program for the parenting of adolescents.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Trial
- Replication RCT of early universal prevention effects on young adult substance misuse.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2014Trial
- Change in participant engagement during a family-based preventive intervention: ups and downs with time and tension.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2014Trial
16 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
In this article, the authors examine whether delayed substance initiation during adolescence, achieved through universal family-focused interventions conducted in middle school, can reduce problematic substance use during young adulthood. Sixth-grade students enrolled in 33 rural midwestern schools and their families were randomly assigned to 3 experimental conditions. Self-report questionnaires provided data at 7 time points for the Iowa Strengthening Families Program (ISFP), Preparing for the Drug Free Years (PDFY), and control groups through young adulthood. Five young adult substance frequency measures (drunkenness, alcohol-related problems, cigarettes, illicit drugs, and polysubstance use) were modeled as distal outcomes affected by the average level and rate of increase in substance initiation across the adolescent years in latent growth curve analyses. Results show that the models fit the data and that they were robust across outcomes and interventions, with more robust effects found for ISFP. The addition of direct intervention effects on young adult outcomes was not supported, suggesting long-term effects were primarily indirect. Relative reduction rates were calculated to quantify intervention-control differences on the estimated proportion of young adults indicating problematic substance use; they ranged from 19% to 31% for ISFP and from 9% to 16% for PDFY.
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