A5042145685- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Community Health and Development
- School Health and Nursing Education
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Youth Substance Use and School Attendance
- Parental Involvement in Education
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Cystic Fibrosis Research Advances
George Mason University
2020-2025
Sydney Local Health District
2023
Blacktown & Mount Druitt Hospital
2023
United States Air Force Academy
2021
National Health Promotion Associates
2021
Barrow Neurological Institute
2020
Cornell University
2009-2019
Mount Sinai Medical Center
2011
American Nurses Association
2011
Johnson Matthey (United Kingdom)
2005-2007
This study examined how parenting factors were associated with adolescent problem behaviors among urban minority youth and to what extent these relationships moderated by family structure gender. Sixth-grade students (N = 228) reported often they use alcohol, smoke cigarettes, or engage in aggressive delinquent behaviors; a parent guardian their monitoring other practices. Findings indicated that boys those from single-parent families engaged the highest rates of behavior. More parental was...
This study examined how parenting factors were associated with adolescent problem behaviors among urban minority youth and to what extent these relationships moderated by family structure gender.Sixth-grade students (N = 228) reported often they use alcohol, smoke cigarettes, or engage in aggressive delinquent behaviors; a parent guardian their monitoring other practices.Findings indicated that boys those from singleparent families engaged the highest rates of behavior.More parental was less...
This exploratory study examines several of the links between parent-child relationship, home learning environment, and school readiness. School readiness is construed as a multidimensional concept that considers behavioral cognitive aspects child's development well adaptation to classroom. The conceptual model upon which this based depicts parent involvement in Head Start having positive effect on readiness, mediated by relationships environment. Results indicated changes relationship...
National survey data indicate that illicit drug use has steadily increased among American adolescents since 1992. This upward trend underscores the need for identifying effective prevention approaches capable of reducing both licit and drugs. The present study examined long-term follow-up from a large-scale randomized trial to determine extent which participation in cognitive-behavioral skills-training program led less than untreated controls. Data were collected by mail 447 individuals who...
ABSTRACT The present study examined the effectiveness of a substance abuse prevention program in preventing tobacco and alcohol use among elementary school students grades 3 through 6. teaches social resistance skills general personal competence skills. Rates behavior, attitudes, knowledge, normative expectations, related variables were (N = 1090) from 20 schools that randomly assigned to either receive (9 schools, n 426) or serve as control group (11 664). Data analyzed at both...
Numerous alcohol and drug abuse prevention trials have included social resistance training as a strategy for reducing early-stage adolescent use. Evaluations of these has shown them to be moderately effective, although the precise impact in comparison other programmatic features not been clearly identified. The current study examined extent which assertiveness related skills, personal competence (perceived cognitive mastery), refusal efficacy predict involvement. Males were at greater risk...
Few prevention studies have examined the degree to which different measures of program implementation adherence predict youth outcomes. The current study was conducted with rural middle school participating in a longitudinal school-based preventive intervention program. Study participants’ average age at pretest assessment 12.3 years. association between ratings supplied by provider self-reports and trained independent observer reports were evaluated. In addition, relationship outcomes...
Research concerning the etiology and prevention of substance misuse has led to development preventive interventions that are theory‐based effective. One such approach, Life Skills Training (LST), targets key etiologic factors using a conceptual framework derived from social learning theory problem behavior theory. LST been extensively tested in series randomized trials found effective preventing use/misuse alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, other psychoactive drugs. demonstrates it is when...
This longitudinal study examined the influence of parenting behaviors, well-being, and risk factors low-income adolescent mothers on cognitive language abilities children from infancy to age 3. Participants consisted 1,240 mother-child dyads enrolled in Early Head Start Research Evaluation Project. Data were collected using structured interviews with videotaped interactions during play activities when approximately 14 months old again at 36 age. Positive behaviors exhibited toward...
In this article, we compare the perceived benefits and risks of inclusion among 244 parents whose preschoolers with without disabilities attended a community-based reverse program. Parents reported strong support for differed on only one attitude dimension. Perceived typically developing children were greater than disabilities. Level was consistent mild, moderate, severe including mild-moderate disabilities, as well those speech or orthopedic impairments. Rates program satisfaction parent...
The authors examined the effectiveness of a school-based prevention program on reducing binge drinking in sample minority, inner-city, middle-school students. Rates were compared among youth who received beginning 7th grade (n = 1,713) and control group 1,328) that did not. had protective effects terms at 1-year (8th grade) 2-year (9th follow-up assessments. proportion drinkers was over 50% lower intervention relative to There also several significant proximal variables, including knowledge,...
Latent growth modeling was used to test dynamic relations between self-esteem and alcohol use in 740 middle school youth assessed at four time points. Self-esteem characterized by a negative trajectory, whereas increased steadily linear fashion. An initial simplified model positing bidirectional influences indicated an inverse relation changes over time, but that levels of neither nor influenced the other construct. With addition external covariates (i.e., gender indices social skills...
This study compares perspectives about benefits and risks of inclusion 237 parents children with without disabilities 118 providers in the same community-based reverse preschool program, using measures. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed a two-factor structure, benefits, based on scale scores from samples. Providers strongly agreed that was beneficial for both preschoolers disabilities. Parents' potential groups were greater than providers' perspectives. reported support including mild...
To determine the validity and reliability of a novel questionnaire to measure vision-related quality life (VRQOL) in children ages 8-18 years for use juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA)-associated uveitis: Effects Youngsters' Eyesight on Quality Life (EYE-Q).Several steps validated EYE-Q. We interviewed experts how vision affects child's activities. developed new items selected relevant from existing instruments. administered initial versions EYE-Q normal-sighted those with JIA-associated...