Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2012
Cost-benefit analysis of communities that care outcomes at eighth grade.
Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01088542 (The Interplay of Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD Use From Late Childhood to Young Adulthood), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The Interplay of Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD Use From Late Childhood to Young Adulthood
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 88 citations in OpenAlex.
- Systematic review of economic evaluations of interventions for high risk young people.BMC health services research · 2018Pooled it
- School-based programmes for preventing smoking.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Cost of implementing evidence-based practices to reduce opioid overdose fatalities in New York State communities.Addiction science & clinical practice · 2025Trial
- Long-term Impacts and Benefit-Cost Analysis of the Communities That Care Prevention System at Age 23, 12 Years After Baseline.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Cost analysis of a randomized trial of Getting to Outcomes implementation support for a teen pregnancy prevention program offered in Boys and Girls Clubs in Alabama and Georgia.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Trial protocol: a clustered, randomised, longitudinal, type 2 translational trial of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related harm among adolescents in Australia.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- Cost-Savings Analysis of the Better Beginnings, Better Futures Community-Based Project for Young Children and Their Families: A 10-Year Follow-up.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2016Trial
- Effects of Communities That Care on Males' and Females' Drug Use and Delinquency 9 Years After Baseline in a Community-Randomized Trial.American journal of community psychology · 2015Trial
- PROSPER partnership delivery system: Effects on adolescent conduct problem behavior outcomes through 6.5 years past baseline.Journal of adolescence · 2015Trial
- Building Local Infrastructure for Community Adoption of Science-Based Prevention: The Role of Coalition Functioning.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Trial
- Effects of the communities that care prevention system on youth reports of protective factors.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Trial
- Youth problem behaviors 8 years after implementing the communities that care prevention system: a community-randomized trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2014Trial
- How has the economic downturn affected communities and implementation of science-based prevention in the randomized trial of communities that care?American journal of community psychology · 2013Trial
- Mental health in resource-limited settings: amplifying youth voices and approaches.Discover mental health · 2025Article
- Healthy Communities for Youth: A Cost Analysis of a Community-Level Program to Prevent Youth Violence.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- The German Communities That Care Youth Survey: dimensionality and validity of risk factors.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Australian Communities That Care (CTC) intervention: Benefit-cost analysis of a community-based youth alcohol prevention initiative.PloS one · 2024Article
- Using Bayesian Meta-Regression to Advance Prevention Science Research: an Introduction and Empirical Illustration.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2022Article
- Cost-Effectiveness Comparison of Delivery Modalities for a Dissonance-Based Eating Disorder Prevention Program over 4-Year Follow-Up.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Study protocol: a non-randomised community trial to evaluate the effectiveness of the communities that care prevention system in Germany.BMC public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
This paper presents a cost-benefit analysis of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system, a public health approach to reducing risk, enhancing protection, and reducing the prevalence of adolescent health and behavior problems community wide. The analysis is based on outcomes from a panel of students followed from Grade 5 through Grade 8 in a randomized controlled trial involving 24 communities in 7 states. Previous analyses have shown that CTC prevented the initiation of cigarette smoking, alcohol use, and delinquency by the end of 8th grade in CTC communities compared to controls. This paper estimates long-term monetary benefits associated with significant intervention effects on cigarette smoking and delinquency as compared to the cost of conducting the intervention. Under conservative cost assumptions, the net present benefit is $5,250 per youth, including $812 from the prevention of cigarette smoking and $4,438 from the prevention of delinquency. The benefit-cost ratio indicates a return of $5.30 per $1.00 invested. Under less conservative but still viable cost assumptions, the benefit-cost ratio due to prevention of cigarette smoking and delinquency increases to $10.23 per $1.00 invested. Benefits from CTC's reduction in alcohol initiation as well as broader inclusion of quality-of-life gains would further increase CTC's benefit-cost ratio. Results provide evidence that CTC is a cost-beneficial preventive intervention and a good investment of public dollars, even under very conservative cost and benefit assumptions.
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