A5057821465- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Diverse Approaches in Healthcare and Education Studies
- Healthcare Education and Workforce Issues
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Military and Defense Studies
- Educational Technology and Assessment
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
- Education and Learning Interventions
- Military History and Strategy
- Pharmaceutical Practices and Patient Outcomes
- Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects
- Gun Ownership and Violence Research
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Community Health and Development
- Gambling Behavior and Treatments
- HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- Social Media and Politics
- Defense, Military, and Policy Studies
Indiana University Bloomington
2015-2024
Background Schools increasingly prioritize social-emotional competence and bullying cyberbullying prevention, so the development of novel, low-cost, high-yield programs addressing these topics is important. Further, rigorous assessment interventions prior to widespread dissemination crucial. Objective This study assesses effectiveness implementation fidelity ACT Out! Social Issue Theater program, a 1-hour psychodramatic intervention by professional actors; it also measures students’...
This study investigates gender differences within the context of risk and protective factors for alcohol use substance problems in a sample 8,992 Hispanic students grades 6 through 12, who responded to statewide survey other drug use. The effects gender, grade, on past-month use, binge drinking, are examined. Results show that outcomes were moderated by such females had greater predicted probabilities than males across levels factors. An ecological framework is applied speculate why female...
Adolescent alcohol and drug use in the United States are associated with negative consequences spanning multiple domains. Much of public health surveillance these behaviors relies on self-report survey data. These data frequently takes form frequency or prevalence for specific substances, which may not provide a complete picture use.This study analyzes state-level that includes CRAFFT screening tool. The study's goal is to elucidate spectrum substance severity across large segment...
The extent to which social norms (injunctive and descriptive) are associated with collegiate alcohol use—including binge drinking—has been examined at length, but studies examining the efficacy of interventions derived thereof have reported mixed outcomes. This study examines data from 5,124 college students 13 different colleges collected by 2010 Indiana College Substance Use Survey in order further elucidate relationship between drinking. We apply seven regression models data, finding...
Background Students in the United States spend a meaningful portion of their developmental lives school. In recent years, researchers and educators have begun to focus explicitly on social emotional learning (SEL) school setting. Initial evidence from meta-analyses suggests that curricula designed promote SEL likely produce benefits terms social-emotional competence (SEC) numerous related behavioral affective outcomes. At same time, there are often barriers implementing such as intended,...
Prospective longitudinal data collection is an important way for researchers and evaluators to assess change. In school-based settings, low-risk and/or likely-beneficial interventions or surveys, quality ethical standards are both arguably stronger when using a waiver of parental consent-but doing so often requires the use anonymous methods. The standard solution this problem has been self-generated identification code. However, such codes incorporate personalized elements (e.g., birth...
Over-the-counter (OTC) drug abuse among adolescents is an increasingly visible and meaningful trend in the United States, but little research has been done to contextualize OTC abuse. This study examined a large sample of 152,678 middle school high attempt understand sequences initiation, sociodemographic risk factor-related precursors thereof. We found that while many who had ever abused used one or more “gateway” drugs (alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana) initiated use gateway first, there was...
School-based alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD) surveys are a common epidemiological means of understanding youth risk behaviors. They can be used to monitor national trends provide data, in aggregate, schools, communities, states for the purposes funding allocation, prevention programming, supportive infrastructure. However, such sometimes targeted by public criticism, even legal action, often response lack perceived appropriateness. The ubiquity social media has added potential...
ABSTRACT BACKGROUND Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) cluster within children. In addition to standardized ACE measures, there exist “ACE‐related” measures that are either directly or indirectly related the constructs. This study aimed identify ACE‐related latent classes of adolescents and describe past‐month substance use in each class by sex race/ethnicity. METHODS Data from 2018 Indiana Youth Survey (N = 70,703), which is a repeated self‐administered, cross‐sectional survey, were used....
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> School-based alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use (ATOD) surveys are a common epidemiological means of understanding youth risk behaviors. They can be used to monitor national trends provide data, in aggregate, schools, communities, states for the purposes funding allocation, prevention programming, supportive infrastructure. However, such sometimes targeted by public criticism, even legal action, often response lack perceived appropriateness. The ubiquity...
<sec> <title>BACKGROUND</title> Schools increasingly prioritize social-emotional competence and bullying cyberbullying prevention, so the development of novel, low-cost, high-yield programs addressing these topics is important. Further, rigorous assessment interventions prior to widespread dissemination crucial. </sec> <title>OBJECTIVE</title> This study assesses effectiveness implementation fidelity ACT Out! Social Issue Theater program, a 1-hour psychodramatic intervention by professional...