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ReviewThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2016

Interventions for Adolescent Substance Abuse: An Overview of Systematic Reviews.

Jai K Das, Rehana A Salam, Ahmed Arshad, Yaron Finkelstein, Zulfiqar A Bhutta

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Review in The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 177 papers, 13 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
177citing papers in PubMed, 13 pooled it
14.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

177 citing papers in PubMed, 13 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 485 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Parental Incarceration, Development, and Well-Being: A Developmental Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023
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  18. Keepin' It REAL-Mantente REAL in Mexico: Longitudinal Examination of Youth Drug Resistance Strategies and Substance Use Among Early Adolescents.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2023
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  19. Intervention for marijuana using, court-involved non-incarcerated youth.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023
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117 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Jai K DasDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Rehana A SalamDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Ahmed ArshadDivision of Women and Child Health, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
Yaron FinkelsteinDivision of Emergency Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Zulfiqar A BhuttaCentre for Global Child Health, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Center of Excellence in Women and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan. Electronic address: zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca.
Aga Khan University · PKHospital for Sick Children · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many unhealthy behaviors often begin during adolescence and represent major public health challenges. Substance abuse has a major impact on individuals, families, and communities, as its effects are cumulative, contributing to costly social, physical, and mental health problems. We conducted an overview of systematic reviews to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent substance abuse among adolescents. We report findings from a total of 46 systematic reviews focusing on interventions for smoking/tobacco use, alcohol use, drug use, and combined substance abuse. Our overview findings suggest that among smoking/tobacco interventions, school-based prevention programs and family-based intensive interventions typically addressing family functioning are effective in reducing smoking. Mass media campaigns are also effective given that these were of reasonable intensity over extensive periods of time. Among interventions for alcohol use, school-based alcohol prevention interventions have been associated with reduced frequency of drinking, while family-based interventions have a small but persistent effect on alcohol misuse among adolescents. For drug abuse, school-based interventions based on a combination of social competence and social influence approaches have shown protective effects against drugs and cannabis use. Among the interventions targeting combined substance abuse, school-based primary prevention programs are effective. Evidence from Internet-based interventions, policy initiatives, and incentives appears to be mixed and needs further research. Future research should focus on evaluating the effectiveness of specific interventions components with standardized intervention and outcome measures. Various delivery platforms, including digital platforms and policy initiative, have the potential to improve substance abuse outcomes among adolescents; however, these require further research.

Indexed as

Adolescent healthDrug abuseSubstance abuse

Identifiers

PMID27664597
PMCPMC5026681
OpenAlexW2522876820

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