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Effects of Two Early Parenting Programmes on Child Aggression and Risk for Violence in Brazil: A Randomised Controlled Trial
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Joseph Murray; Rafaela Costa Martins; Melanie Greenland; Suélen Cruz; Elisa Altafim; Adriane Xavier Arteche; Peter J. Cooper; Marlos Rodrigues Domingues; Andrea Gonzalez; Adriana Kramer Fiala Machado; Lynne Murray; Isabel Oliveira; Iná Santos; Tâmara Biolo Soares; Luciana Tovo-Rodrigues; Merryn Voysey – Prevention Science, 2024
Violence is a major public health problem globally, with the highest rates in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the Americas and southern Africa. Parenting programmes in high-income countries can diminish risk for violence, by reducing risk factors such as child aggression and harsh parenting, and increasing protective factors such as…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Program Effectiveness, Parent Education, Child Behavior
Psychosis Symptom Trajectories across Childhood and Adolescence in Three Longitudinal Studies: An Integrative Data Analysis with Mixture Modeling
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Musci, Rashelle J.; Kush, Joseph M.; Masyn, Katherine E.; Esmaeili, Masoumeh Amin; Susukida, Ryoko; Goulter, Natalie; McMahon, Robert; Eddy, J. Mark; Ialongo, Nicholas S.; Tolan, Patrick; Godwin, Jennifer; Bierman, Karen L.; Bierman, Karen L.; Coie, John D.; Crowley, D. Max; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Lochman, John E.; McMahon, Robert J.; Pinderhughes, Ellen E.; Wilcox, Holly C. – Prevention Science, 2023
Psychotic-like experiences (PLEs) are common throughout childhood, and the presence of these experiences is a significant risk factor for poor mental health later in development. Given the association of PLEs with a broad number of mental health diagnoses, these experiences serve as an important malleable target for early preventive interventions.…
Descriptors: Psychosis, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Children, Adolescents
Evidence That Selecting an Appropriate Item Response Theory-Based Approach to Scoring Surveys Can Help Avoid Biased Treatment Effect Estimates
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Soland, James – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2022
Considerable thought is often put into designing randomized control trials (RCTs). From power analyses and complex sampling designs implemented preintervention to nuanced quasi-experimental models used to estimate treatment effects postintervention, RCT design can be quite complicated. Yet when psychological constructs measured using survey scales…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Surveys, Scoring, Randomized Controlled Trials
Testing the Impact of the Whole-Day Good Behavior Game on Aggressive Behavior: Results of a Classroom-Based Randomized Effectiveness Trial
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Wilcox, Holly C.; Petras, Hanno; Brown, Hendricks C.; Kellam, Sheppard G. – Prevention Science, 2022
Three generations of developmental epidemiologically based randomized field trials of the Good Behavior Game (GBG) have been delivered to Baltimore elementary schools. With the collaboration of family and community partners, all three trials were directed at decreasing proximal targets of aggressive behavior and improving learning in first-grade…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Educational Games, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification