Trial reportEuropean journal of public health2014
Evaluation of a Swedish version of the Strengthening Families Programme.
Trial report in European journal of public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Effectiveness of School-Based Resilience Interventions on Adolescent Tobacco, Alcohol, and Illicit Substance Use: A Meta-Analysis.The Journal of school health · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effectiveness of Whole-school Interventions Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Risk Behaviours in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- Adapting evidence-informed complex population health interventions for new contexts: a systematic review of guidance.Implementation science : IS · 2019Pooled it
- Family-based prevention programmes for alcohol use in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled 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
- Does the Brazilian version of the strengthening families program (Familias Fortes) reduce adolescent substance use and change parental behavior? Evidence from a 2-year follow-up study.BMC public health · 2025Trial
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- Promoting Positive Youth Development with Adolescent Boys in UK Schools: A Theory-Driven Evaluation of the "Becoming a Man" Programme.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2026Article
- Evidence and Gap Map of Whole-School Interventions Promoting Mental Health and Preventing Risk Behaviours in Adolescence: Programme Component Mapping Within the Health-Promoting Schools Framework: An evidence and gap map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Process Evaluation and Investigation of Cultural Adaptations for an Online Parent-Based Intervention Using a Mixed-Method Approach.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2024Article
- Short-term effects of the strengthening families Program (SFP 10-14) in Brazil: a cluster randomized controlled trial.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2024Article
- Transporting an Evidence-based Youth Development Program to a New Country: A Narrative Description and Analysis of Pre-implementation Adaptation.Journal of prevention (2022) · 2023Article
- Social Validity of the Strengthening Families Program in Northeastern Brazil: the Voices of Parents, Adolescents, and Facilitators.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- Beyond effectiveness of the Strengthening Families Program (10-14): a scoping RE-AIM-based review.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2021Article
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- Building a Culture of Prevention: Tasks for Multi-Taskers.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
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- A Parenting Behavior Intervention (the Strengthening Families Program) for Families: Noninferiority Trial of Different Program Delivery Methods.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2019Article
- Formative Evaluation to Build an Online Parenting Skills and Youth Drug Prevention Program: Mixed Methods Study.JMIR formative research · 2019Article
- When and how do 'effective' interventions need to be adapted and/or re-evaluated in new contexts? The need for guidance.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2019Article
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Abstract
backgroundAdolescents' alcohol consumption is a public health concern in Sweden as well as in many other countries. Underage drinking is associated with increased risks of alcohol-related injuries, risky sexual behaviours and dependence later in life. Different strategies have been used in the effort to prevent this behaviour, and to postpone the onset of alcohol. The Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP 10-14) from the USA has been highlighted as one of the more effective prevention programmes. The aim of the present article was to evaluate the effectiveness of a culturally adapted Swedish version of the SFP 10-14.
methodsThis was a cluster randomized controlled trial including 587 sixth-grade students (age 12) and their parents in 19 elementary schools in Stockholm. Schools were randomly assigned to either control (9 schools, 216 students) or to the family skills training intervention (10 schools, 371 students). The SFP Swedish version consisted of two parts with seven and five sessions, respectively, held separately for youths and parents except two joint family sessions. Measures of students' self-reported episodes of drunkenness, smoking, illicit drug use and other norm-breaking behaviours were collected at baseline (March 2003) and at three subsequent yearly surveys. Data were analysed using multilevel models with an intention-to-treat approach.
resultsNo preventive effects were found for smoking, alcohol and illicit drug use and other norm-breaking behaviours, nor did moderators affect the outcome.
conclusionThe Swedish version of the SFP 10-14 was not effective in preventing youths' substance use in a Swedish context.
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