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Trial reportThe journal of primary prevention2016

Short-Term Intervention Effects of the PATHS Curriculum in Young Low-Income Children: Capitalizing on Plasticity.

Diana H Fishbein, Celene Domitrovich, Jason Williams, Stephanie Gitukui, Charles Guthrie, Daniel Shapiro, Mark Greenberg

Abstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in The journal of primary prevention, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Diana H FishbeinC. Eugene Bennett Chair in Prevention Research, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA. dfishbein@psu.edu.
Celene DomitrovichCollaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL), Chicago, IL, USA.
Jason WilliamsRTI International, Durham, NC, USA.
Stephanie GitukuiRTI International, Durham, NC, USA.
Charles GuthrieC. Eugene Bennett Chair in Prevention Research, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.
Daniel ShapiroRTI International, Durham, NC, USA.
Mark GreenbergC. Eugene Bennett Chair in Prevention Research, Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, 302 Biobehavioral Health Building, University Park, PA, 16802, USA.

Funding

Transdisciplinary Approach to Understand Variability in Preventive Intervention OR01DA025047 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI DOMITROVICH, CELENE, FISHBEIN, DIANA H · 2010 to 2014
$3.7M
Neurocognitive Prerequisites for Preventing Drug AbuseR01DA014813 · NIDA · RESEARCH TRIANGLE INSTITUTE · PI FISHBEIN, DIANA H · 2001 to 2003
$700k
NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA014813NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA025047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deficits in behavioral and cognitive regulation are prevalent in children reared in poverty relative to more affluent children due to the effects of adverse conditions on the developmental underpinnings of these skills. Despite evidence to suggest that these emergent processes are susceptible to environmental inputs, research documenting short-term intervention program influences on these regulatory domains in young impoverished children is limited. We sought to determine the proximal effects of a universal school-based intervention (the PATHS Curriculum) on social, emotional, relational, and cognitive outcomes in urban poor kindergarten children. Four schools in high-poverty neighborhoods with similar demographic characteristics were randomly assigned to either PATHS or an attentional control. Teacher-reported measures of behavior (e.g., attention, concentration, aggression), peer nominations (e.g., likability, aggression, acceptance), and tasks gauging inhibitory control were administered in the fall of kindergarten and again in the spring after one academic year (about 6 months) of PATHS. Children who received PATHS exhibited significantly greater improvements than control students across all teacher-rated behavioral measures of social competence (i.e., emotion regulation, prosocial behavior, peer relations) and behavioral problems (i.e., aggression, internalizing behaviors, impulsivity and hyperactivity) at post-test as well as improvements in motor inhibition. This line of research constitutes an important frontier for prevention research given the implications for improving ultimate outcomes for otherwise disadvantaged children.

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AggressionChild BehaviorCurriculumEmotionsChildChild, PreschoolFemaleHumansMalePovertySchoolsSocial BehaviorStudentsBehavioral problemsEarly childhoodPreventive interventionShort term effectsSocial competence

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PMID27785656
PMCPMC10505054

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