Trial reportHealth education research2011
Impact of HealthWise South Africa on polydrug use and high-risk sexual behavior.
Trial report in Health education research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Systematic review of school tobacco prevention programs in African countries from 2000 to 2016.PloS one · 2018Pooled it
- School-based sexual health education interventions to prevent STI/HIV in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC public health · 2016Pooled it
- Universal school-based prevention for illicit drug use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Sexual risk reduction interventions for HIV prevention among South African youth: a meta-analytic review.Current HIV research · 2013Pooled it
- Assessing the Feasibility of Economic Approaches to Prevent Substance Abuse Among Adolescents: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
- Gender and Context Matter: Behavioral and Structural Interventions for People Who Use Alcohol and Other Drugs in Africa.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Doing a Leisure Activity because there is Nothing Else to Do: Related Outcomes and Intervention Effects for Adolescents.Journal of leisure research · 2020Article
- Understanding HIV Risk Behaviors Among Young Men in South Africa: A Syndemic Approach.AIDS and behavior · 2018Article
- Gender-specific differences in high-risk sexual behaviors among methamphetamine users in Myanmar-China border city, Muse, Myanmar: who is at risk?BMC public health · 2018Article
- Girls Just Want to Know Where to Have Fun: Preventing Substance Use Initiation in an Under-Resourced Community in South Africa Through HealthWise.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2016Article
- Trajectories of adolescent substance use development and the influence of healthy leisure: A growth mixture modeling approach.Journal of adolescence · 2016Article
- A qualitative study of methamphetamine initiation in Cape Town, South Africa.The International journal on drug policy · 2016Article
- Sex and sexual orientation disparities in adverse childhood experiences and early age at sexual debut in the United States: results from a nationally representative sample.Child abuse & neglect · 2015Article
- Intervention for Positive Use of Leisure Time Among College Students.Journal of college and character · 2013Article
- Nothing as Practical as a Good Theory? The Theoretical Basis of HIV Prevention Interventions for Young People in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Systematic Review.AIDS research and treatment · 2012Article
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Abstract
This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of the HealthWise South Africa HIV and substance abuse prevention program at impacting adolescents' polydrug use and sexual risk behaviors. HealthWise is a school-based intervention designed to promote social-emotional skills, increase knowledge and refusal skills relevant to substance use and sexual behaviors, and encourage healthy free time activities. Four intervention schools in one township near Cape Town, South Africa were matched to five comparison schools (N = 4040). The sample included equal numbers of male and female participants (Mean age = 14.0). Multiple regression was used to assess the impact of HealthWise on the outcomes of interest. Findings suggest that among virgins at baseline (beginning of eighth grade) who had sex by Wave 5 (beginning of 10th grade), HealthWise youth were less likely than comparison youth to engage in two or more risk behaviors at last sex. Additionally, HealthWise was effective at slowing the onset of frequent polydrug use among non-users at baseline and slowing the increase in this outcome among all participants. Program effects were not found for lifetime sexual activity, condomless sex refusal and past-month polydrug use. These findings suggest that HealthWise is a promising approach to HIV and substance abuse prevention.
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