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Reducing the risk factors and enhancing the protective factors associated with initiating substance use.
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 through...
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 of...
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, however...
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 or...
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 known...
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...
Piloting a Universal Violence Prevention Programme in Jamaican Grade One Primary Schools
Marsha Bowers, Helen Baker-Henningham, Yakeisha Scott
Introduction: Corporal punishment is a widely used behaviour management strategy in Jamaican schools and exposure to corporal punishment at school is associated with poor child mental...
The Impact of an Indigenous Led, Community-Based Trial to Reduce Alcohol Related Harms in New South Wales, Australia
Mieke Snijder
Introduction: Indigenous people of Australia experience a higher burden of health-related harm compared to non-Aboriginal Australians, which is most starkly evidenced by the Aboriginal life expectancy being an estimated 10...
Acceptability of Oral Fluid-Based Rapid HIV Self-Testing in Hefei, China
Ashley Perez, Don Operario, Cui Yang, Nickolas Zaller, Hongo Zhang
Introduction: In China, the proportion of HIV cases attributed to men who have sex with men (MSM) behavior has rapidly increased in recent years, with over one-quarter of...
Supportive Parenting Moderates the Effect of Racial Discrimination on Delinquency among Ethiopian-Israeli Youth
Steven M. Kogan, Sophie Walsh, Megan Hicks
The Ethiopian families who are the focus of the present study emigrated from Ethiopia to Israel in the 1980s-1990s. Escaping civil war, famine, and religious persecution, these families have...
Meeting the Challenges of Recruiting and Retaining Families in a Pragmatic Randomised Controlled Trial of the Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 UK
Jeremy Segrott, Jo Holliday, Jonathan Scourfield, David Foxcroft, Simon Murphy
Introduction: Trials of family-based prevention interventions often face challenges in recruitment and retention, leading to methodological issues. However...
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