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Family-centered program deters substance use, conduct problems, and depressive symptoms in black adolescents.
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Pediatrics [Pediatrics] 2012 Jan; Vol. 129 (1), pp. 108-15. Date of Electronic Publication: 2011 Dec 12. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- Objectives: The present research addressed the following important question in pediatric medicine: Can participation in a new family-centered preventive intervention, the Strong African American Families-Teen (SAAF-T) program, deter conduct problems, substance use, substance use problems, and depressive symptoms among rural black adolescents across 22 months?<br />Methods: Data were collected from 502 black families in rural Georgia, assigned randomly to SAAF-T or an attention control condition. The prevention condition consisted of 5 consecutive meetings at community facilities with separate, concurrent sessions for caregivers and adolescents followed by a caregiver-adolescent session in which families practiced skills they learned in the separate sessions. Adolescents self-reported conduct problem behaviors, substance use, substance use problems, and depressive symptoms at ages 16 years (pretest) and 17 years 10 months (long-term assessment).<br />Results: Adolescents who participated in SAAF-T evinced lower increases in conduct problem behavior, substance use, substance use problems, and depressive symptom frequencies than did adolescents in the attention control condition across the 22 months between pretest and long-term assessment.<br />Conclusions: This is the first study to demonstrate efficacy in a prevention program designed to deter conduct problems, substance use, substance use problems, and depressive symptoms among rural black adolescents. Because SAAF-T is a manualized, structured program, it can be easily disseminated to public health agencies, schools, churches, boys' and girls' clubs, and other community organizations.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior
Community Mental Health Services
Conduct Disorder ethnology
Depression ethnology
Female
Health Behavior
Humans
Male
Rural Population
Substance-Related Disorders ethnology
Black or African American
Conduct Disorder prevention & control
Depression prevention & control
Family Relations
Health Promotion
Substance-Related Disorders prevention & control
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1098-4275
- Volume :
- 129
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Pediatrics
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 22157131
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2011-0623