Trial reportBMC public health2016
Efficacy evaluation of the school program Unplugged for drug use prevention among Brazilian adolescents.
Trial report in BMC public health, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 50 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acceptability, feasibility and fidelity of the culturally adapted version of Unplugged ("Yo Se Lo Que Quiero"), a substance use preventive program among adolescents in Chile: a pilot randomized controlled study.BMC public health · 2024Trial
- Does #Tamojunto alter the dynamic between drug use and school violence among youth? Secondary analysis from a large cluster-randomized trial.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Trial
- Effects of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program on Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Brazilian Schools.Archives of sexual behavior · 2021Trial
- ¡Activate Ya! Co-learning about school-based tobacco prevention and physical activity promotion in secondary school students in Uruguay.Global health promotion · 2020Trial
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- The #Tamojunto Drug Prevention Program in Brazilian Schools: a Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2017Trial
- Integrating Crime Prevention and Health Promotion Programs for School-Aged Children to Decrease Anti-Social Behaviours.Health promotion journal of Australia : official journal of Australian Association of Health Promotion Professionals · 2025Review
- Methodological characteristics of evaluative studies of drug prevention programs in Brazil: scoping review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2025Article
- Substance Use and Addictive Behavior in Spanish Adolescents in Secondary School.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Community-based mental health services in Brazil.Consortium psychiatricum · 2020Review
- Belief patterns and drug use in a sample of Brazilian youth: an exploratory latent class analysis.Revista brasileira de psiquiatria (Sao Paulo, Brazil : 1999) · 2020Article
- Effectiveness evaluation of the school-based drug prevention program #Tamojunto2.0: protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Lions Quest Skills for Adolescence Program as a School Intervention to Prevent Substance Use-a Pilot Study Across Three South East European Countries.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2019Article
- Development and evaluation of addiction treatment programs in Latin America.Current opinion in psychiatry · 2018Review
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundMost Brazilian schools do not have a continuous program for drug use prevention and do not conduct culturally adapted activities for that purpose. This study evaluated the impact of the Unplugged program on drug use prevention among children and adolescents in public middle schools of Brazil.
methodsA non-randomized controlled trial was conducted in 2013 with 2185 students in 16 public schools from 3 Brazilian cities. The intervention group attended 12 weekly classes of the Unplugged program for drug use prevention, and the control group did not attend to any school prevention programs in the same year. Multilevel analyses were used to evaluate temporal and between group changes in the consumption of each drug.
resultsThe study suggested that there was no evidence that Unplugged effected 11- to 12-year-old students. However, the program seemed to stimulate a decrease in recent marijuana use (transition from use to non-use in 85.7% of intervention cases and 28.6% of control cases, OR = 17.5, p = 0.039) among 13- to 15-year-old students. In addition, students in this age range who received the Unplugged program had similar drug consumption levels to those observed before the program began. However, students in the control group presented a significant tendency to increase marijuana use and binge drinking.
conclusionsThis study adds to the evidence of program efficacy among Brazilian middle school students by presenting marginal effects on binge drinking and marijuana use. An 18-month randomized controlled trial is recommended for a future study.
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