Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2012
A family intervention to reduce sexual risk behavior, substance use, and delinquency among newly homeless youth.
Trial report in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 35 papers, 10 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Diverting Homeless Youth From Chronic Homelessness and Risk for HIV
Teaching Youth & Families Self-Regulation Skills to Disrupt the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: Preventing Substance Use in Adversity- Impacted Youth
Who cites it
35 citing papers in PubMed, 10 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.
- Interventions to improve the mental health of women experiencing homelessness: A systematic review of the literature.PloS one · 2024Pooled it
- The impact of interventions for youth experiencing homelessness on housing, mental health, substance use, and family cohesion: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2019Pooled 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
- Interventions for promoting reintegration and reducing harmful behaviour and lifestyles in street-connected children and young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 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
- Teaching Youth & Families Self-Regulation Skills to Disrupt the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences: The THRIVE Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial.Research square · 2026Article
- "We Remember the Pain": A qualitative study of intergenerational trauma among older adults experiencing homelessness in the HOPE HOME study.Journal of social distress and the homeless · 2024Article
- Creating Space for Adolescents and Families With Lived Experience of Homelessness to Build Familial Empathy, Communication, and Emotional Regulation: A Qualitative Study of Facilitators of Implementation.Journal of psychosocial nursing and mental health services · 2024Article
- Examining the Role of Duration and Frequency of Homelessness on Health Outcomes Among Unsheltered Young Adults.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023Article
- Evidence Base Update of Psychosocial Treatments for Adolescents with Disruptive Behavior.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Article
- Strengthening Families to Disrupt Intergenerational Health Inequities With Adolescents at Risk for Commercial Sexual Exploitation, Substance Use, and HIV.American journal of public health · 2023Article
- The Full Picture: Incorporating Ecological Factors When Conducting Developmental Screening with Young Children Experiencing Homelessness.Child indicators research · 2023Article
- Family Interventions to improve mental, emotional, and behavioral health outcomes among Latinx youth: A systematic review.Children and youth services review · 2023Article
- Family-based interventions in youth to prevent HIV/AIDS: A systematic review.Journal of education and health promotion · 2023Review
- Temporary stays with housed family and friends among older adults experiencing homelessness: Qualitative findings from the HOPE HOME study.Qualitative social work : QSW : research and practice · 2022Article
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Authors and funding
13 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
purposeWe evaluate the efficacy of a short family intervention in reducing sexual risk behavior, drug use, and delinquent behaviors among homeless youth.
methodsA randomized controlled trial of 151 families with a homeless adolescent aged 12 to 17 years. Between March 2006 and June 2009, adolescents were recruited from diverse sites in Southern California and were assessed at recruitment (baseline), and at 3, 6, and 12 months later. Families were randomly assigned to an intervention condition with five weekly home-based intervention sessions or a control condition (standard care). Main outcome measures reflect self-reported sexual risk behavior, substance use, and delinquent behaviors over the past 90 days.
resultsSexual risk behavior (e.g., mean number of partners; p < .001), alcohol use (p = .003), hard drug use (p < .001), and delinquent behaviors (p = .001) decreased significantly more during 12 months in the intervention condition compared with the control condition. Marijuana use, however, significantly increased in the intervention condition compared with the control condition (p < .001).
conclusionsAn intervention to reengage families of homeless youth has significant benefits in reducing risk over 12 months.
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