Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among African American and Hispanic Adolescents and Young Adults: a Systematic ReviewPrevention Science - Tập 22 - Trang 367-377 - 2020
Danilo A. Rojas-Velasquez, Emily I. Pluhar, Paul A. Burns, E. Thomaseo Burton
While African American and Hispanic adolescents and young adults living in the USA are exposed to myriad stressors that may increase their risk for mental health difficulties, few studies have examined nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among these youth. The purpose of this systematic review was to critically examine and synthesize current literature on NSSI among these understudied youth. Using mult...... hiện toàn bộ
A Comparison of Current Practice in School-Based Substance Use Prevention Programs with Meta-Analysis FindingsPrevention Science - Tập 4 - Trang 1-14 - 2003
Susan T. Ennett, Christopher L. Ringwalt, Judy Thorne, Louise Ann Rohrbach, Amy Vincus, Ashley Simons-Rudolph, Shelton Jones
The series of seminal meta-analytic studies of school-based substance use prevention program studies conducted by the late Nancy S. Tobler and colleagues concluded that programs with content focused on social influences' knowledge, drug refusal skills, and generic competency skills and that use participatory or interactive teaching strategies were more effective than programs focused on knowledge ...... hiện toàn bộ
Preventing Youth Violence and Delinquency through a Universal School-Based Prevention ApproachPrevention Science - Tập 7 - Trang 403-408 - 2006
Gilbert J. Botvin, Kenneth W. Griffin, Tracy Diaz Nichols
Violence is an important public health problem among adolescents in the United States. Substance use and violence tend to co-occur among adolescents and appear to have similar etiologies. The present study examined the extent to which a comprehensive prevention approach targeting an array of individual-level risk and protective factors and previously found effective in preventing tobacco, alcohol,...... hiện toàn bộ
Testing the Causal Direction of Mediation Effects in Randomized Intervention StudiesPrevention Science - Tập 20 - Trang 419-430 - 2018
Wolfgang Wiedermann, Xintong Li, Alexander von Eye
In a recent update of the standards for evidence in research on prevention interventions, the Society of Prevention Research emphasizes the importance of evaluating and testing the causal mechanism through which an intervention is expected to have an effect on an outcome. Mediation analysis is commonly applied to study such causal processes. However, these analytic tools are limited in their poten...... hiện toàn bộ
Equivalence of the Mediation, Confounding and Suppression EffectPrevention Science - - 2000
David P. MacKinnon, Jennifer L. Krull, Chondra M. Lockwood
This paper describes the statistical similarities among mediation, confounding, and suppression. Each is quantified by measuring the change in the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable after adding a third variable to the analysis. Mediation and confounding are identical statistically and can be distinguished only on conceptual grounds. Methods to determine the confidence in...... hiện toàn bộ
Understanding Environmental Exposures and ADHD: a Pathway ForwardPrevention Science - - 2024
Stephen V. Faraone
This commentary addresses a series of articles in Prevention Science about environmental causes of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It provides an overview of their key findings and places them in a broader context to facilitate their interpretation. Each of the articles included in the special issue is a meta-analysis assessing the association of ADHD with several environmental ex...... hiện toàn bộ
Neighborhood Deprivation is Associated with Increased Risk of Prenatal Smoke ExposurePrevention Science - Tập 23 - Trang 1078-1089 - 2022
David C. Wheeler, Joseph Boyle, D. Jeremy Barsell, Rachel L. Maguire, Bassam Dahman, Susan K. Murphy, Cathrine Hoyo, Jim Zhang, Jason A. Oliver, Joseph McClernon, Bernard F. Fuemmeler
Despite years of advisories against the behavior, smoking among pregnant women remains a persistent public health issue in the USA. Recent estimates suggest that 9.4% of women smoke before pregnancy and 7.1% during pregnancy in the USA. Epidemiological research has attempted to pinpoint individual-level and neighborhood-level factors for smoking during pregnancy, including educational attainment, ...... hiện toàn bộ
Comparing Virtual and In-Person Implementation of a School-Based Sexual Health Promotion Program in High Schools with Large Latino PopulationsPrevention Science - - 2023
Bianca Faccio, Alison McClay, Krystle McConnell, Christopher Gates, Jane Finocharo, James Tallant, V. Martinez, Jennifer Manlove
AbstractMany sexual health programs transitioned to virtual implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite its devastation, the pandemic provided an opportunity to learn about virtual compared to in-person implementation of a sexual health promotion program—El Camino. This study assessed differences in program attendance, engagement, quality, and student rati...... hiện toàn bộ