Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2015
Peer Network Counseling with Urban Adolescents: A Randomized Controlled Trial with Moderate Substance Users.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 40 citations in OpenAlex.
- Brief Drug Interventions Delivered in General Medical Settings: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Cannabis Use Outcomes.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Pooled it
- Peer Network Counseling Effects on Substance Use: an Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis Integrating Three Randomized Controlled Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy of Brief Intervention for Unhealthy Drug Use in Outpatient Medical Care: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of general internal medicine · 2022Pooled it
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- Text message-delivered cannabis use disorder treatment with young adults: A large randomized clinical trial.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2025Trial
- Young Adults Advancing Through the Stages of Change: A Mediational Analysis of Cannabis Use Disorder Treatment.Substance use & misuse · 2025Trial
- Understanding Which Teenagers Benefit Most From a Brief Primary Care Substance Use Intervention.Pediatrics · 2019Trial
- Brief motivational interviewing intervention to reduce alcohol and marijuana use for at-risk adolescents in primary care.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2018Trial
- A pilot trial of text-delivered peer network counseling to treat young adults with cannabis use disorder.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2018Trial
- Peer Network Counseling as Brief Treatment for Urban Adolescent Heavy Cannabis Users.Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs · 2017Trial
- Contextualizing the adolescent social brain: Links to social health using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Identifying patterns and predictors of social health in adolescence using data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study.Developmental psychology · 2026Article
- Adverse Experiences, Protective Factors, and Obesity in Latinx and Hispanic Youths.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Multilevel effects of alcohol among early adolescents in an urban school district.International journal of alcohol and drug research · 2020Article
- The REDCap consortium: Building an international community of software platform partners.Journal of biomedical informatics · 2019Article
- Not getting high with a little help from your friends: Social versus drug network correlates of marijuana use among YMSM.Addictive behaviors · 2019Article
- Adolescent resilience to addiction: a social plasticity hypothesis.The Lancet. Child & adolescent health · 2018Review
- A longitudinal study predicting adolescent tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use by behavioral characteristics of close friends.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2017Article
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10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Close peer networks can affect adolescents' health behaviors by altering their social environments, and thus their risk for and protection against substance use involvement. We tested a 20 minute intervention named Peer Network Counseling that integrates motivational interviewing and peer network strategies with 119 urban adolescents who reported occasional or problem substance use. Adolescents presenting at primary care clinic were randomized to intervention or control conditions and followed for 6 months. Mixed-effect latent growth models were used to evaluate intervention effects on trajectories of alcohol and marijuana use, offers to use substances, and moderation models to test for interactions between intervention condition and peer network characteristics. A significant intervention effect was found for boys for offers to use alcohol from friends (p<.05), along with a trend significant effect for alcohol use (p<.08). Intervention was more effective in reducing marijuana use, vs. control, for participants with more peer social support (p<.001) and with more peer encouragement for prosocial behavior (school, clubs, sports, religious activities); however, intervention did not affect these network characteristics. Results provide support to continue this line of research to test brief interventions that activate protective peer network characteristics among at-risk adolescents, while also raising some interesting gender-based intervention questions for future research.
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