Trial reportThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2013
Effects of Positive Action on the emotional health of urban youth: a cluster-randomized trial.
Trial report in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01025674 (Positive Action for Social and Character Development), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Positive Action for Social and Character Development
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 78 citations in OpenAlex.
- School-based Mental Health Interventions Targeting Depression or Anxiety: A Meta-analysis of Rigorous Randomized Controlled Trials for School-aged Children and Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Pooled 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
- Effectiveness of Universal School-Based Mental Health Awareness Programs Among Youth in the United States: A Systematic Review.The Journal of school health · 2016Pooled it
- Effects of a School-Based Social-Emotional and Character Development Program on Health Behaviors: A Matched-Pair, Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial.The journal of primary prevention · 2016Trial
- A Strategic Plan for Strengthening America's Families: A Brief from the Coalition of Behavioral Science Organizations.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Review
- Examining Integrated Youth Services Using the Bioecological Model: Alignments and Opportunities.International journal of integrated care · 2018Article
- A Longitudinal Evaluation of the Positive Action Program in a Low-Income, Racially Diverse, Rural County: Effects on Self-Esteem, School Hassles, Aggression, and Internalizing Symptoms.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2015Article
- Teachers' Perceptions of School Organizational Climate as Predictors of Dosage and Quality of Implementation of a Social-Emotional and Character Development Program.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2015Article
- Childhood Protective Factors and a Prevention Program Reduce Later Problem Behaviors.Journal of applied developmental psychologyArticle
- Effects of theApplied developmental scienceArticle
- SOCIO-EMOTIONAL AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT: A Theoretical Orientation.Journal of character educationArticle
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Abstract
purposeWe examined the effects of Positive Action (PA), a school-based social-emotional learning and health promotion program, on the emotional health of predominately low-income and ethnic minority urban youth.
methodsThe study was a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 14 Chicago public schools. Outcomes were assessed over a 6-year period of program implementation for a cohort of youth in each school, followed from grades 3 to 8. Youth reported on their emotional health (positive affect, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety) and social-emotional and character development. Growth-curve and structural-equation modeling analyses assessed overall program effects on the emotional health outcomes as well as mediation of these effects via the program's impact on youths' social-emotional and character development.
resultsStudents in PA schools, compared with those in control schools, had more favorable change over the course of the study in positive affect (standardized mean difference effect size [ES] = .17) and life satisfaction (ES = .13) as well as significantly lower depression (ES = -.14) and anxiety (ES = -.26) at study end point. Program effects for positive affect, depression, and anxiety were mediated by more favorable change over time in social-emotional and character development for students in PA schools.
conclusionsResults suggest that universal, school-based programs can benefit the emotional health of youth in low-income, urban settings. The modest magnitude of effects over an extended period of program implementation, however, reflects the challenges of both mounting interventions and offsetting formidable risks for mental health problems in such environments.
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