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Prevention
Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
بچوں، نوعمروں، والدین اور اساتذہ کے لئے احتیاطی گائیڈز (میکسیکو)
اس مسئلے کا جواب دینے کے لئے حکمت عملی کے فریم ورک کے اندر ، میکسیکو میں نشے کے خلاف قومی کمیشن نے نفسیاتی تعلیمی حکمت عملیوں کا ایک جامع پیکیج تیار کیا ہے ، خاص طور پر جس کا مقصد بچوں اور نوعمروں میں تمباکو ، شراب اور منشیات کے استعمال کو...
Cost-Effectiveness Study of Interventions to Prevent Alcohol Abuse in Mexico
Abstract
Introduction
In Mexico, alcohol abuse involves overhead costs in terms of premature mortality caused by their related health problems. It is estimated that by itself it implies 9% of the total burden of disease in the country...
Effectiveness of a Brief Intervention Based on Motivational Interviewing in Colombian Adolescents
Prevention science has identified evidence-based strategies for reducing alcohol and other drug use among adolescents, such as Brief Interventions (BI) and Motivational Interviewing (MI). However, there is little evidence about...
The Irie Classroom Toolbox: A Cluster Randomised Trial of a Universal Violence Prevention Programme in Jamaican Preschools
Helen Baker-Henningham, Marsha Bowers, Taja Francis, Susan Walker
Introduction: Violence is a leading global public health problem and makes a substantial contribution to the burden of disease at the global level. Interventions in early...
The Incredible Years Teacher Classroom Management Program in Norway: Effects of a Universal Preventive Effort in Regular School- and Kindergarten Settings
Merete Aasheim
Introduction: Students, who show early onset of risk factors linked to behavior problems, are in increased risk for academic underachievement, school failure and dropout, as well as duration of mental health problems...
Trajectories of Marijuana Use in Canadian Youth and Associations with Substance Use, Mental Health, and Behavioral Problems in Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Bonnie Leadbeater, Kara Thompson, Gabriel "Joey" Merrin, Megan E Ames
Introduction: Compared to other countries, Canadian youth are the highest users of marijuana in the developed world, with 28% of youth under 15 reporting marijuana use...
Sustaining Fidelity in Wide-Scale International Implementation
Marion Sue Forgatch
To improve the reach of evidence based interventions, we require science-based implementation systems and a way to ensure that programs are delivered with sustained model fidelity. Direct observation of intervention...
Parent Training: Effects Beyond Problem Behavior?
Silje Hukkelberg
Introduction: Brief Parent Training (BPT) and Parent Management Training- the Oregon model (PMTO) are interventions that both are proven effective in reducing emerging/existing conduct problem behaviors in children...
Can Health Care Efforts to Reduce Child Behavior Problems Also Reduce Social Risk? Unintended Collateral Benefits in Parent Training
Introduction: Lack of family resources, social risk, has been found to negatively impact development of child behavior problems. Thus, improving families’ access to resources, and thereby reducing social risk, would certainly benefit...
The Risk of Doing Activities Because There Is Nothing Else to Do
Mojdeh Motamedi, Linda Lee Caldwell, Damon Evan Jones, Lisa Wegner, Edward Allan Smith
Introduction: Building on the previous findings that boredom is a predictor of sexual debut, this study examines how targeting youth’s leisure, a...
Using Boredom to Compare Competing Sexual Risks in Adolescence
Eric K Layland, Linda Lee Caldwell, Nilam Ram, Lisa Wegner
Introduction: Early and risky sex in adolescence are related to transmission of HIV/AIDS and other STDs and unintended pregnancy. Sexual debut often co-occurs with other risky...
Constructing Latent Classes of Sexual Abstinence Motives Endorsed by South African High School Learners
Phylicia T Bediako, Linda Lee Caldwell, Stephanie T. Lanza, Lisa Wegner, Joachim Jacobs, Jacqueline A. Miller
Introduction: Black and Coloured (i.e., mixed race, or multiracial) South Africans represent a substantial proportion of...
The Process of Creating a Supported Implementation System to Support Social-Emotional Learning and Prevent Youth Violence through School-Community Partnerships
Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lana Wells
While the implementation of evidence-based programs within classrooms is an important piece of school-based prevention, creating healthy communities requires a more comprehensive approach: as...
Intersections between Perceptions of Evidence-Based Programming, School Climate and Implementation Quality
Deinera Exner-Cortens, Vanja Spiric, Maisha Syeda
Promoting healthy relationships is increasingly recognized as a major prevention strategy for preventing youth violence and promoting youth well-being. In Alberta, Canada, the promotion...
Promotion of Social-Emotional Learning: Building Teacher Capacity through Graduate Programs and Pre-Service Education
Lana Wells, Lianne Lee, Deinera Exner-Cortens, Lynn Corcoran
The promotion of social-emotional learning (SEL) represents a key prevention strategy for youth violence, including bullying and dating violence. As identified by CASEL...
Feasibility and Fit of an Evidence-Based Universal Prevention Program Adapted for Youth Involved in the Justice System
Amanda Kerry, Claire V Crooks
Introduction: Over one-third of Canadian youth have engaged in some form of delinquent behavior by the age of 14 (Savoie, 2006). In the United States, approximately 31 million youth are under juvenile court...
Feasibility of Implementing a Culturally Adapted Parenting Intervention for Karen Refugee Caretakers in the U.S.
Elizabeth A Wieling, Jaime Ballard, Christopher Mehus, Damir Utrzan
Introduction: Increasing numbers of children are fleeing to the United States after exposure to war and conflict. Children exposed to war have high rates of negative...
Implementing the KiVa Bullying Prevention Programme in the UK
Suzy Clarkson, Judy Hutchings
KiVa is a Finnish anti-bullying programme, developed at Turku University. It is based on robust research by the programme developer, Christina Salmivalli, that shows how the responses of bystanders maintain...
Improving Outcomes for Adolescents at High-Risk of Poor Social, Economic and Health Outcomes
Anthony Shakeshaft
Introduction: Adolescents exposed to multiple, co-occurring risk factors experience disproportionately high rates of harm, and Indigenous adolescents are over-represented in this population. Despite this, little is...
Development of a Smartphone App-Based Messaging Intervention to Encourage HIV Self-Testing in Hefei, China
Cui Yang, Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Hongo Zhang, Nickolas Zaller
Introduction: Research in China has found that MSM avoid HIV testing at clinics or public health departments due in part to stigma and fear of disclosure of their MSM...
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