Trial reportJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2023
Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial.
Trial report in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT01653535 (Multisite Prevention of Conduct Problems), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Intergenerational stability in parenting across two generations: A multilevel meta-analytic review.Psychological bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- The randomized controlled trial Fast Track multilevel intervention for children with early-emerging conduct problems breaks intergenerational transmission of violence across three generations.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2026Trial
- Fast Track Intervention Effects and Mechanisms of Action Through Established Adulthood.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Intergenerational Effects of the Fast Track Intervention on Next-Generation Child Outcomes: A Preregistered Randomized Clinical Trial.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Trial
- Fast Track intervention effects on family formation.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Trial
- Pathways of intergenerational transmission of depression: The role of the Fast Track intervention.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Honoring the Work of Robert McMahon: a Commentary on This Special Issue.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Article
- Taking John Schulenberg's "long view" on successful transitions to adulthood: Associations with adult substance use.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Parenting Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Physical Punishment: A Scoping Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Intergenerational Effects of a Family Cash Transfer on the Home Environment.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Commentary: The roles of mothers versus fathers in intergenerational family risk - a commentary on Rothenberg et al. (2023).Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundMaladaptive family environments harm child development and are passed across generations. Childhood interventions may break this intergenerational cycle by improving the family environments children form as adults. The present study investigates this hypothesis by examining follow-up data collected 18 years after the end of the childhood Fast Track intervention designed to prevent externalizing problems.
methodsWe examined whether Fast Track assignment from grades 1 to 10 prevented the emergence of maladaptive family environments at age 34. A total of 400 (n = 206 in intervention condition, n = 194 controls) Fast Track participants who were parents at age 34 were surveyed about 11 aspects of their current family environment. The hypotheses and analytic plan were preregistered at https://osf.io/dz9t5 and the Fast Track trial was registered at clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01653535).
resultsMultiple group linear regression models revealed that mothers who participated in the Fast Track intervention as children had lower depression symptoms, alcohol problems, drug problems, corporal punishment use, and food insecurity compared to control group mothers. All effects were modest in magnitude. However, for these same mothers, the Fast Track intervention had no effect on cannabis problems, experiences of romantic partner violence, or maternal use of physical aggression or warmth with their children. Additionally, mothers in the Fast Track intervention group reported higher levels of family chaos than those in the control group, but this effect may be a byproduct of the higher number of children per household in the intervention group. No intervention effects were found for fathers who participated in the Fast Track intervention as children.
conclusionsChildhood assignment to Fast Track has some beneficial effects for girls, but not boys, on the family environments these individuals formed as adults 18 years later.
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