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Michael J Bowling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effects of moms and teens for safe dates a dating Abuse Prevention program for adolescents exposed to domestic violence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2015Co-Authors: Vangie A Foshee, Thad Benefield, Kimberly S Dixon, Lingyin Chang, Virginia Senkomago, Susan T Ennett, Kathryn E Moracco, Michael J BowlingAbstract:Adolescents exposed to domestic violence are at high risk for dating Abuse. This randomized controlled trial evaluated a dating Abuse Prevention program designed specifically for this risk group. Moms and Teens for Safe Dates consisted of six mailed booklets of dating Abuse Prevention information and interactive activities. Mothers who had been victims of domestic violence but no longer lived with the Abuser delivered the program to their adolescents who had been exposed to the Abuse. Mother and adolescent pairs (N = 409) were recruited through community advertising; the adolescents ranged from 12 to 16 years old and 64 % were female. Mothers and adolescents completed baseline and 6-month follow-up telephone interviews. Booklet completion in the treatment group ranged from 80 % for the first to 62 % for the last booklet. The analyses first tested whether program effects on dating Abuse varied by four a priori identified moderators (mother’s psychological health, the amount of adolescent exposure to domestic violence, and adolescent sex and race/ethnicity). Main effects of the program were examined when there were no differential program effects. Program effects on psychological and physical victimization and psychological and cyber perpetration were moderated by the amount of adolescent exposure to domestic violence; there were significant favorable program effects for adolescents with higher, but not lower levels of exposure to domestic violence. There were no moderated or main effects on sexual violence victimization and perpetration or cyber victimization. The findings suggest that a dating Abuse Prevention program designed for adolescents exposed to domestic violence can have important positive effects.
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assessing the effects of families for safe dates a family based teen dating Abuse Prevention program
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012Co-Authors: Vangie A Foshee, Susan T Ennett, Heath Luz Mcnaughton Reyes, Jessica Duncan Cance, Karl E Bauman, Michael J BowlingAbstract:Abstract Purpose To examine the effects of a family-based teen dating Abuse Prevention program, Families for Safe Dates , primarily on outcomes related to testing the conceptual underpinnings of the program including (1) factors motivating and facilitating caregiver engagement in teen dating Abuse Prevention activities, and 2) risk factors for teen dating Abuse, and secondarily on dating Abuse behaviors. Methods Families were recruited nationwide using listed telephone numbers. Caregivers and teens completed baseline and 3-month follow-up telephone interviews (n = 324). Families randomly allocated to treatment condition received the Families for Safe Dates program including six mailed activity booklets followed-up by health educator telephone calls. Results There were significant ( Conclusions Modifications to the program are warranted, but overall, the findings are very favorable for the first family-based teen dating Abuse Prevention program to be evaluated.
Gilbert J Botvin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term follow up effects of a school based drug Abuse Prevention program on adolescent risky driving
Prevention Science, 2004Co-Authors: Kenneth W Griffin, Gilbert J Botvin, Tracy R NicholsAbstract:This study examined long-term follow-up data from a large-scale randomized trial to determine the extent to which participation in a school-based drug Abuse Prevention program during junior high school led to less risky driving among high school students. Self-report data collected from students in the 7th, 10th, and 12th grades were matched by name to students' department of motor vehicles (DMV) records at the end of high school. The DMV data included the total number of violations on students' driving records as well as the number of "points" that indicate the frequency and severity of the violations. A series of logistic regression analyses revealed that males were more likely to have violations and points on their driving records than females, and regular alcohol users were more likely to have violations and points than those who did not use alcohol regularly. Controlling for gender and alcohol use, students who received the drug Prevention program during junior high school were less likely to have violations and points on their driving records relative to control group participants that did not receive the Prevention program. Findings indicated that antidrinking attitudes mediated the effect of the intervention on driving violations, but not points. These results support the hypothesis that the behavioral effects of competence-enhancement Prevention programs can extend to risk behaviors beyond the initial focus of intervention, such as risky driving.
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effectiveness of a universal drug Abuse Prevention approach for youth at high risk for substance use initiation
Preventive Medicine, 2003Co-Authors: Kenneth W Griffin, Gilbert J Botvin, Tracy R Nichols, Margaret M DoyleAbstract:Abstract Background. Universal school-based Prevention programs for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use are typically designed for all students within a particular school setting. However, it is unclear whether such broad-based programs are effective for youth at high risk for substance use initiation. Method. The effectiveness of a universal drug Abuse preventive intervention was examined among youth from 29 inner-city middle schools participating in a randomized, controlled Prevention trial. A subsample of youth (21% of full sample) was identified as being at high risk for substance use initiation based on exposure to substance-using peers and poor academic performance in school. The Prevention program taught drug refusal skills, antidrug norms, personal self-management skills, and general social skills. Results. Findings indicated that youth at high risk who received the program (n = 426) reported less smoking, drinking, inhalant use, and polydrug use at the one-year follow-up assessment compared to youth at high risk in the control condition that did not receive the intervention (n = 332). Results indicate that a universal drug Abuse Prevention program is effective for minority, economically disadvantaged, inner-city youth who are at higher than average risk for substance use initiation. Conclusions. Findings suggest that universal Prevention programs can be effective for a range of youth along a continuum of risk.
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drug Abuse Prevention among minority adolescents posttest and one year follow up of a school based preventive intervention
Prevention Science, 2001Co-Authors: Gilbert J Botvin, Kenneth W Griffin, Tracy Diaz, Michelle IfillwilliamsAbstract:Most drug Abuse Prevention research has been conducted with predominantly White middle-class adolescent populations. The present study tested a school-based drug Abuse preventive intervention in a sample of predominantly minority students (N = 3,621) in 29 New York City schools. The Prevention program taught drug refusal skills, antidrug norms, personal self-management skills, and general social skills in an effort to provide students with skills and information for resisting drug offers, to decrease motivations to use drugs, and decrease vulnerability to drug use social influences. Results indicated that those who received the program (n = 2,144) reported less smoking, drinking, drunkenness, inhalant use, and polydrug use relative to controls (n = 1,477). The program also had a direct positive effect on several cognitive, attitudinal, and personality variables believed to play a role in adolescent substance use. Mediational analyses showed that Prevention effects on some drug use outcomes were mediated in part by risk-taking, behavioral intentions, and peer normative expectations regarding drug use. The findings from this study show that a drug Abuse Prevention program originally designed for White middle-class adolescent populations is effective in a sample of minority, economically disadvantaged, inner-city adolescents.
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long term follow up results of a randomized drug Abuse Prevention trial in a white middle class population
JAMA, 1995Co-Authors: Gilbert J Botvin, Eli Baker, Elizabeth M. Botvin, Linda Dusenbury, Tracy DiazAbstract:Objective. —To evaluate the long-term efficacy of a school-based approach to drug Abuse Prevention. Design. —Randomized trial involving 56 public schools that received the Prevention program with annual provider training workshops and ongoing consultation, the Prevention program with videotaped training and no consultation, or "treatment as usual" (ie, controls). Follow-up data were collected 6 years after baseline using school, telephone, and mailed surveys. Participants. —A total of 3597 predominantly white, 12th-grade students who represented 60.41% of the initial seventh-grade sample. Intervention. —Consisted of 15 classes in seventh grade, 10 booster sessions in eighth grade, and five booster sessions in ninth grade, and taught general "life skills" and skills for resisting social influences to use drugs. Measures. —Six tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use self-report scales were recoded to create nine dichotomous drug use outcome variables and eight polydrug use variables. Results. —Significant reductions in both drug and polydrug use were found for the two groups that received the Prevention program relative to controls. The strongest effects were produced for individuals who received a reasonably complete version of the intervention—there were up to 44% fewer drug users and 66% fewer polydrug (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana) users. Conclusions. —Drug Abuse Prevention programs conducted during junior high school can produce meaningful and durable reductions in tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana use if they (1) teach a combination of social resistance skills and general life skills, (2) are properly implemented, and (3) include at least 2 years of booster sessions. ( JAMA . 1995;273:1106-1112)
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effectiveness of culturally focused and generic skills training approaches to alcohol and drug Abuse Prevention among minority youths
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 1994Co-Authors: Gilbert J Botvin, Steven P. Schinke, Jennifer A Epstein, Tracy DiazAbstract:The authors tested the effectiveness of 2 alcohol and drug Abuse Prevention programs among inner-city minority 7th-grade students (N = 639) from 6 New York City public schools. Schools were randomly assigned to receive (a) a generic skills training Prevention approach, (b) a culturally focused Prevention approach, or (c) an information-only control. Results indicate that students in both Prevention approaches had lower intentions to drink beer or wine in the future relative to students in the control group. The generic skills training approach also showed promise in terms of intention to drink hard liquor and use illicit drugs. Both Prevention programs influenced several mediating variables in a direction consistent with nondrug use. The study provides preliminary support for the 2 approaches with respect to alcohol and drug use Prevention among minority youths in New York City.
Vangie A Foshee - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the effects of moms and teens for safe dates a dating Abuse Prevention program for adolescents exposed to domestic violence
Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2015Co-Authors: Vangie A Foshee, Thad Benefield, Kimberly S Dixon, Lingyin Chang, Virginia Senkomago, Susan T Ennett, Kathryn E Moracco, Michael J BowlingAbstract:Adolescents exposed to domestic violence are at high risk for dating Abuse. This randomized controlled trial evaluated a dating Abuse Prevention program designed specifically for this risk group. Moms and Teens for Safe Dates consisted of six mailed booklets of dating Abuse Prevention information and interactive activities. Mothers who had been victims of domestic violence but no longer lived with the Abuser delivered the program to their adolescents who had been exposed to the Abuse. Mother and adolescent pairs (N = 409) were recruited through community advertising; the adolescents ranged from 12 to 16 years old and 64 % were female. Mothers and adolescents completed baseline and 6-month follow-up telephone interviews. Booklet completion in the treatment group ranged from 80 % for the first to 62 % for the last booklet. The analyses first tested whether program effects on dating Abuse varied by four a priori identified moderators (mother’s psychological health, the amount of adolescent exposure to domestic violence, and adolescent sex and race/ethnicity). Main effects of the program were examined when there were no differential program effects. Program effects on psychological and physical victimization and psychological and cyber perpetration were moderated by the amount of adolescent exposure to domestic violence; there were significant favorable program effects for adolescents with higher, but not lower levels of exposure to domestic violence. There were no moderated or main effects on sexual violence victimization and perpetration or cyber victimization. The findings suggest that a dating Abuse Prevention program designed for adolescents exposed to domestic violence can have important positive effects.
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assessing the effects of families for safe dates a family based teen dating Abuse Prevention program
Journal of Adolescent Health, 2012Co-Authors: Vangie A Foshee, Susan T Ennett, Heath Luz Mcnaughton Reyes, Jessica Duncan Cance, Karl E Bauman, Michael J BowlingAbstract:Abstract Purpose To examine the effects of a family-based teen dating Abuse Prevention program, Families for Safe Dates , primarily on outcomes related to testing the conceptual underpinnings of the program including (1) factors motivating and facilitating caregiver engagement in teen dating Abuse Prevention activities, and 2) risk factors for teen dating Abuse, and secondarily on dating Abuse behaviors. Methods Families were recruited nationwide using listed telephone numbers. Caregivers and teens completed baseline and 3-month follow-up telephone interviews (n = 324). Families randomly allocated to treatment condition received the Families for Safe Dates program including six mailed activity booklets followed-up by health educator telephone calls. Results There were significant ( Conclusions Modifications to the program are warranted, but overall, the findings are very favorable for the first family-based teen dating Abuse Prevention program to be evaluated.
Harold Leitenberg - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Child sexual Abuse Prevention programs: do they decrease the occurrence of child sexual Abuse?
Child Abuse & Neglect, 2000Co-Authors: Laura E. Gibson, Harold LeitenbergAbstract:Abstract Objective: The primary goal of the current study was to determine whether rates of child sexual Abuse differed among undergraduate women who either had or had not participated in a sexual Abuse Prevention program during childhood. A secondary goal was to determine whether differences emerged in sexual satisfaction or avoidance of sexual activity between those women who had or had not participated in such a program. Method: Eight hundred and twenty-five women undergraduates from a New England state university filled out a survey on “sexual experiences” for research credit. Respondents were asked detailed questions regarding past histories of child sexual Abuse and participation in school-based Prevention programs during childhood. Additionally, they responded to questions about their current sexual satisfaction and sexual behaviors. Results: Sixty-two percent of the sample reported having participated in a “good touch-bad touch” sexual Abuse Prevention program in school. Eight percent of respondents who reported ever having had a Prevention program also reported having been subsequently sexually Abused, compared to 14% of respondents who did not ever have a Prevention program. No differences were found in adult sexual satisfaction or on behavioral measures of sexual activity between those respondents who had and had not participated in a Prevention program. Conclusions: This is the first study to find that school-based child sexual Abuse Prevention programs are associated with a reduced incidence of child sexual Abuse. Additionally, contrary to concerns voiced in the literature, there was no evidence that Prevention programs are associated with decreased sexual satisfaction or avoidance of sex in adulthood. Implications of the results for further study are discussed.
Kenneth W Griffin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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long term follow up effects of a school based drug Abuse Prevention program on adolescent risky driving
Prevention Science, 2004Co-Authors: Kenneth W Griffin, Gilbert J Botvin, Tracy R NicholsAbstract:This study examined long-term follow-up data from a large-scale randomized trial to determine the extent to which participation in a school-based drug Abuse Prevention program during junior high school led to less risky driving among high school students. Self-report data collected from students in the 7th, 10th, and 12th grades were matched by name to students' department of motor vehicles (DMV) records at the end of high school. The DMV data included the total number of violations on students' driving records as well as the number of "points" that indicate the frequency and severity of the violations. A series of logistic regression analyses revealed that males were more likely to have violations and points on their driving records than females, and regular alcohol users were more likely to have violations and points than those who did not use alcohol regularly. Controlling for gender and alcohol use, students who received the drug Prevention program during junior high school were less likely to have violations and points on their driving records relative to control group participants that did not receive the Prevention program. Findings indicated that antidrinking attitudes mediated the effect of the intervention on driving violations, but not points. These results support the hypothesis that the behavioral effects of competence-enhancement Prevention programs can extend to risk behaviors beyond the initial focus of intervention, such as risky driving.
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effectiveness of a universal drug Abuse Prevention approach for youth at high risk for substance use initiation
Preventive Medicine, 2003Co-Authors: Kenneth W Griffin, Gilbert J Botvin, Tracy R Nichols, Margaret M DoyleAbstract:Abstract Background. Universal school-based Prevention programs for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use are typically designed for all students within a particular school setting. However, it is unclear whether such broad-based programs are effective for youth at high risk for substance use initiation. Method. The effectiveness of a universal drug Abuse preventive intervention was examined among youth from 29 inner-city middle schools participating in a randomized, controlled Prevention trial. A subsample of youth (21% of full sample) was identified as being at high risk for substance use initiation based on exposure to substance-using peers and poor academic performance in school. The Prevention program taught drug refusal skills, antidrug norms, personal self-management skills, and general social skills. Results. Findings indicated that youth at high risk who received the program (n = 426) reported less smoking, drinking, inhalant use, and polydrug use at the one-year follow-up assessment compared to youth at high risk in the control condition that did not receive the intervention (n = 332). Results indicate that a universal drug Abuse Prevention program is effective for minority, economically disadvantaged, inner-city youth who are at higher than average risk for substance use initiation. Conclusions. Findings suggest that universal Prevention programs can be effective for a range of youth along a continuum of risk.
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drug Abuse Prevention among minority adolescents posttest and one year follow up of a school based preventive intervention
Prevention Science, 2001Co-Authors: Gilbert J Botvin, Kenneth W Griffin, Tracy Diaz, Michelle IfillwilliamsAbstract:Most drug Abuse Prevention research has been conducted with predominantly White middle-class adolescent populations. The present study tested a school-based drug Abuse preventive intervention in a sample of predominantly minority students (N = 3,621) in 29 New York City schools. The Prevention program taught drug refusal skills, antidrug norms, personal self-management skills, and general social skills in an effort to provide students with skills and information for resisting drug offers, to decrease motivations to use drugs, and decrease vulnerability to drug use social influences. Results indicated that those who received the program (n = 2,144) reported less smoking, drinking, drunkenness, inhalant use, and polydrug use relative to controls (n = 1,477). The program also had a direct positive effect on several cognitive, attitudinal, and personality variables believed to play a role in adolescent substance use. Mediational analyses showed that Prevention effects on some drug use outcomes were mediated in part by risk-taking, behavioral intentions, and peer normative expectations regarding drug use. The findings from this study show that a drug Abuse Prevention program originally designed for White middle-class adolescent populations is effective in a sample of minority, economically disadvantaged, inner-city adolescents.