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Kristin Martinsen, Simon-Peter Neumer, Solveig I Holen, Anne Mari Sund, Joshua Patras, Lene-Mari Rasmussen, Frode Adolfsen, Mona Elisabeth Løvaas, Marit Loetveit Pedersen, Trine Waaktaar

Introduction: Anxiety and depression are common...

Jo Holliday, Thomas Littlejohns, Ligia Adamska, Cathie Sudlow, Nicola Doherty, Naomi Allen

Introduction: UK Biobank was created as an open-access resource for the investigation of the genetic, environmental and lifestyle determinants of...

Luise Adametz, Felicitas Richter, Julia Mühleck, Katharina Wick, Bernhard Strauß, Uwe Berger

Disordered eating and partial eating disorder (ED) syndromes are widespread in childhood and adolescence. They are associated with decreased...

Margiad Elen Williams, Dawn Adele Owen

Introduction: Whilst there are evidence based services for parents of children with identified behaviour problems, the demands on parents have increased and now many parents are seeking advice on...

Carmen Orte, Lluís Ballester, Joan Amer, Marga Vives, Maria Antònia Gomila, Rosario Pozo, Belén Pascual, Karol L. Kumpfer

Introduction: The Family Competence Program (FCP) for 12 to 16-year-old teenagers is the Spanish adaptation of the...

Terje Gunnar Ogden, Kristine Amlund Hagen

Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) was introduced as a treatment alternative to families in both child welfare services and child psychiatric out-patient clinics in Norway, in...

Maria Luisa Correa, Daniela Castillo, Yannine Estrada, Marcelo Sánchez, Guillermo Prado

Introduction: Familias Unidas is an evidence-based substance use and sexual risk prevention program, designed originally for Hispanic families in the...

Lílian Patrícia Silva de Souza, Eliana Berger, Edileuza Monteiro, Francisco Bastos

The Public Ministry of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, has requested strategies in prevention actions for the use/misuse of drugs from the National...

Sheila Giardini Murta, Luis G. A. Vinha

The enhancement of positive parenting practices, family cohesion and family values has been shown to be one of the ways to prevent drug abuse among young people. The Strengthening Families Program...

Luis G. A. Vinha, Nayara D M A A Khouri, Sheila Giardini Murta

The use of both illegal and legal drugs among adolescents poses a serious problem to societies worldwide. In this sense, it is fundamental to determine the risk and...

Arthur de Oliveira Correa, Eric C. Brown, Nicole Eisenberg, John S. Briney, Juliana Mejía-Trujillo, Daniela Castillo, Marcelo Sánchez

Introduction: The increasing use of evidence-based preventive interventions in Latin America has...

Clarisse Moreira Alo, Marina Pedralho, Juliana Seidl, Mariana Russo Voydeville Damasceno, Viviane de Paula Rocha, Camila de Aquino Morais

Introduction: The Strengthening Families Program (SFP) was originally developed at the University...

Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Elizabeth Kiehne, David Alarcón, Carlos Libisch

In Uruguay, alcohol use is pervasive among adolescents between the ages of 13 and 17 (past year use: ~ 60%, past month use: ~ 40%)...

Stephanie Ayers, Flavio F. Marsiglia, Stephen S. Kulis, Paul Smokowski, Anaid Gonzalvez

The rise and spread of violence in Mexico is an urgent concern given its unsettling, widespread and accelerating impact on communities. Experiencing...

Vi D. Le, Jonathan Pettigrew, Jeff R. Temple

Background: Teen dating violence is a significant public health issue with potentially severe mental, physical, and psychosocial health consequences. Much of the literature on dating violence...

Alinka Patricia Avendaño Balladares

Introduction: Professionals in the field of mental health and addictions try to identify situations that cause psychoactive substances use in the population, especially the working population, due to...

Fabio Bautista-Pérez

Introduction: In El Salvador, according to studies the most consumed legal drugs are alcohol, tobacco and cannabis that is illegal, which is according to studies conducted in various parts of the world. In the...

W. Alex Mason, Mary B. Chmelka, Stacy-Ann A. January, Jukka Savolainen

Introduction: Children exposed to cumulative contextual risk (CCR) are vulnerable to experiencing adverse outcomes, including academic failure as well as substance...

Rosie Myint, Wah Wah Lwin

Background: There is a sustained downward trend in HIV prevalence among the sentinel groups which include People Who Inject Drugs (PWID) reflecting the effectiveness of programme for safer sexual behaviors and...

Salman Shahzad, Wendy Leigh Kliewer, Muzafar Ali, Nasreen Begum

Substance use is a significant problem in Pakistan, particularly among male adolescents, yet there are few studies of the correlates of use in this population. As a first...