Trial reportPrevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research2018
A Comparison of Variable- and Person-Oriented Approaches in Evaluating a Universal Preventive Intervention.
Trial report in Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Examining the effectiveness of the PAX-GOOD BEHAVIOUR GAME in improving the mental health and academic outcomes of FIRST NATIONS children in Canada: a clustered randomized controlled trial using administrative data.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Trial
- Playing the long game: A multivariate multilevel non-linear growth curve model of long-term effects in a randomized trial of the Good Behavior Game.Journal of school psychology · 2021Trial
- Examining the Impact of Young Children's Motor Development on Inhibitory Control and Social Skills.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A Bayesian Multilevel Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Outcomes in Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial Studies.Statistics in medicine · 2026Article
- Examining the rollout of the Triple P system parenting program in Manitoba on rates of child maltreatment: Administrative data analyses and document review of policies and programs.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Article
- The PAX Good Behavior Game: One Model for Evolving a More Nurturing Society.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2020Review
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Abstract
Evaluations of prevention programs, such as the PAX Good Behavior Game (PAX), often have multiple outcome variables (e.g., emotional, behavioral, and relationship problems). These are often reported for multiple time points (e.g., pre- and post-intervention) where data are multilevel (e.g., students nested in schools). In this paper, we present both variable-oriented and person-oriented statistical approaches, to evaluate an intervention program with multilevel, longitudinal multivariate outcomes. Using data from the Manitoba PAX Study, we show how these two approaches provide us with different information that can be complementary. Data analyses with the variable-oriented approach (multilevel linear regression model) provided us with overall PAX program effects for each outcome variable; the person-oriented approach (latent transition analysis) allowed us to explore the transition of multiple outcomes across multiple time points and how the intervention program affects this transition differently for students with different risk profiles. We also used both approaches to examine how gender and socio-economic status related to the program effects. The implications of these results and the use of both types of approaches for program evaluation are discussed.
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