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Arthur, Michael W.; Brown, Eric C.; Briney, John S.; Hawkins, J. David; Abbott, Robert D.; Catalano, Richard F.; Becker, Linda; Langer, Michael; Mueller, Martin T. – Journal of School Health, 2015
Background: School administrators and teachers face difficult decisions about how best to use school resources to meet academic achievement goals. Many are hesitant to adopt prevention curricula that are not focused directly on academic achievement. Yet, some have hypothesized that prevention curricula can remove barriers to learning and, thus,…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Academic Achievement, Prevention, Barriers
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Edwards, C. A.; Britton, M. L.; Jenkins, L.; Rickwood, D. J.; Gillham, K. E. – Health Education Research, 2014
Young people have higher rates of sexually transmissible infections (STIs) than the general population. Research has shown that there is a clear link between emotional distress, depression, substance abuse and sexual risk taking behaviours in young people. "headspace" is a youth mental health early intervention service operating in more…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Correlation, Emotional Problems
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Ellis, Bruce; Alford, Aaron; Yu, Ping; Xiong, Sharon; Hill, Gary; Puckett, Marissa; Mannix, Danyelle; Wells, Michael E. – Evaluation and Program Planning, 2012
A three-level growth-curve model was applied to estimate perceived impact growth trajectories, using multi-year data from project and school surveys on outcome and program implementation collected from 59 sites and approximately 1165 participating schools in the Safe Schools and Healthy Students Initiative. Primary interest is to determine whether…
Descriptors: School Safety, Child Health, Partnerships in Education, Federal Programs
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Little, Melissa A.; Sussman, Steven; Sun, Ping; Rohrbach, Louise A. – Health Education, 2013
Purpose: The current study aims to examine the influence of contextual and provider-level factors on the implementation fidelity of a research-based substance abuse prevention program. Also, it aims to investigate whether two provider-level factors, self-efficacy and beliefs about the value of the program, statistically moderate and mediate the…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Fidelity, Context Effect
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Schulte, Ann C.; Easton, Julia E.; Parker, Justin – School Psychology Review, 2009
Documenting treatment integrity is an important issue in research and practice in any discipline concerned with prevention and intervention. However, consensus concerning the dimensions of treatment integrity and how they should be measured has yet to emerge. Advances from three areas in which significant treatment integrity work has taken…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Prevention, Outcomes of Treatment, School Psychology
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Lillehoj, Catherine J. (Goldberg); Griffin, Kenneth W.; Spoth, Richard – Health Education & Behavior, 2004
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 youth participating in a longitudinal school-based preventive intervention program. Study participants' average age at the pretest assessment was 12.3…
Descriptors: Age, Intervention, Social Desirability, Prevention