Trial reportJournal of consulting and clinical psychology2016
A randomized, controlled trial of the family check-up model in public secondary schools: Examining links between parent engagement and substance use progressions from early adolescence to adulthood.
Trial report in Journal of consulting and clinical psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06538922 (Parents and Teens Together), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Parents and Teens Together (PATT): A Dyadic Digital Intervention to Prevent Substance Use Disorders
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family-based prevention programmes for alcohol use in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- The Family Check-up Intervention Moderates Polygenic Influences on Long-Term Alcohol Outcomes: Results from a Randomized Intervention Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Trial
- Engaging Parents to Prevent Adolescent Substance Use: A Randomized Controlled Trial.American journal of public health · 2019Trial
- Effect of Middle School Interventions on Alcohol Misuse and Abuse in Mexican American High School Adolescents: Five-Year Follow-up of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Trial
- The social exigencies of the gateway progression to the use of illicit drugs from adolescence into adulthood.Addictive behaviors · 2017Trial
- The Role of Program Implementation Quality in Family-Focused Substance-Use Prevention for Youth with Multiple Risks: PROSPER Project.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2026Article
- Reductions in substance use-related parenting behaviors after participation in a digitally delivered parenting intervention.Frontiers in digital health · 2026Article
- How and when do work stressors and peer norms impact career entrants' alcohol-related behavior and its consequences?Human relations; studies towards the integration of the social sciences · 2025Article
- Examining polygenic scores for depression, depressive symptoms from childhood to adolescence, and adolescent substance use in a diverse sample: The moderating impact of a family-centered intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Coercive Parent-Adolescent Interactions Predict Substance use and Antisocial Behaviors Through Early Adulthood: A Dynamic Systems Perspective.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Mental health and well-being for the prevention of substance use disorders.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Long-term Effects of the Family Check-Up on Suicidality in Childhood and Adolescence: Integrative Data Analysis of Three Randomized Trials.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Article
- Observed Family and Friendship Dynamics in Adolescence: a Latent Profile Approach to Identifying "Mesosystem" Adaptation for Intervention Tailoring.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Article
- The Oregon Model of Behavior Family Therapy: From Intervention Design to Promoting Large-Scale System Change.Behavior therapy · 2016Review
- The Contribution of Adolescent Effortful Control to Early Adult Educational Attainment.Journal of educational psychology · 2014Article
- SMART Binary: New Sample Size Planning Resources for SMART Studies with Binary Outcome Measurements.Multivariate behavioral researchArticle
- Making Connections that Count - a Case Study of the Family Referral Service in Schools Program on the Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.International journal of integrated careArticle
- Family-based Interventions of Preventing Substance Use Among Immigrant Youth: A Scoping Review.Substance use : research and treatmentArticle
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Authors and funding
4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
objectiveSubstance use in adulthood compromises work, relationships, and health. Prevention strategies in early adolescence are designed to reduce substance use and progressions to problematic use by adulthood. This report examines the long-term effects of offering Family Check-up (FCU) at multiple time points in secondary education on the progression of substance use from age 11 to 23 years.
methodParticipants (N = 998; 472 females) were randomly assigned individuals to intervention or control in Grade 6 and offered a multilevel intervention that included a classroom-based intervention (universal), the FCU (selected), and tailored family management treatment (indicated). Among intervention families, 23% engaged in the selected and indicated levels during middle school.
resultsIntention to treat analyses revealed that randomization to the FCU was associated with reduced growth in marijuana use (p < .05), but not alcohol and tobacco use. We also examined whether engagement in the voluntary FCU services moderated the effect of the intervention on substance use progressions using complier average causal effect (CACE) modeling, and found that engagement in the FCU services predicted reductions in alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use by age 23. In comparing engagers with nonengagers: 70% versus 95% showed signs of alcohol abuse or dependence, 28% versus 61% showed signs of tobacco dependence, and 59% versus 84% showed signs of marijuana abuse or dependence.
conclusionFamily interventions that are embedded within public school systems can reach high-risk students and families and prevent progressions from exploration to problematic substance use through early adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record
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