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Trial reportAmerican journal of preventive medicine2014

Effects of the Communities That Care system on cross-sectional profiles of adolescent substance use and delinquency.

M Lee Van Horn, Abigail A Fagan, J David Hawkins, Sabrina Oesterle

Registry-linked trialOpen access · greenAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in American journal of preventive medicine, 2014. 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 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT01088542 naactive not recruitingnot on this map

The Interplay of Social, Normative, and Legal Marijuana Environments and Marijuana and ATOD Use From Late Childhood to Young Adulthood

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of WashingtonRan2003 to 2025Enrolled52,323ConditionsSubstance Abuse, Juvenile Delinquency, Sexual Behavior, Criminal BehaviorArmsCommunities That Care
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

M Lee Van HornDepartment of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina. Electronic address: vanhorn@sc.edu.
Abigail A FaganDepartment of Sociology, Criminology & Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
J David HawkinsSocial Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
Sabrina OesterleSocial Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
University of Washington · USUniversity of Florida · USUniversity of South Carolina · US

Funding

The Community Youth Development Study: A Test of Communities That CareR01DA015183 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI HAWKINS, J DAVID, OESTERLE, SABRINA · 2003 to 2016
$34.0M
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA015183NIDA NIH HHS R01DA015183
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionAdolescent substance use and delinquency are major public health problems. Although community-based prevention strategies have been recommended to produce population-level reductions in rates of substance use and delinquency, few models show evidence of effectiveness. PURPOSE: To test the efficacy of a community-based prevention system, Communities That Care (CTC), in reducing community rates of problem behaviors, particularly effects on specific profiles of adolescent substance use and delinquency in eighth- and tenth-graders.

methodsTwenty-four communities were randomized to CTC intervention or control groups. Data were collected from 14,099 8th- and 10th-grade students in these communities using anonymous cross-sectional surveys in 2004 and 2010 and analyzed in 2012. Outcomes were four different profiles of self-reported substance use and delinquency in 8th grade and five profiles in 10th grade.

resultsIn the cross-sectional 2010 data, there was no intervention effect on the probability of experimenting with substances or of substance use coupled with delinquent activities for either grade. However, tenth-graders in intervention communities were significantly less likely to be alcohol users than those in control communities (OR=0.69, CI=0.48, 1.00).

conclusionsCross-sectional population surveys showed evidence of CTC effects in reducing tenth-grade alcohol users but not experimenters. A community-wide reduction in adolescent alcohol use is important because alcohol is the most commonly used illicit substance during adolescence, and early initiation of alcohol use has been associated with alcohol-related disorders in adulthood. Failure to find hypothesized effects on experimenters qualifies these results.

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Adolescent BehaviorAdolescentAge FactorsAlcohol-Related DisordersCommunity Health ServicesCross-Sectional StudiesData CollectionFemaleHumansJuvenile DelinquencyMaleOutcome Assessment, Health CarePreventive Health ServicesSubstance-Related Disorders

Identifiers

PMID24986217
PMCPMC4106992
OpenAlexW1976385288

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