Fast Track Intervention Effects and Mechanisms of Action Through Established Adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Early preventive interventions can improve outcomes in childhood, but the most effective interventions can continue to deliver benefits through the life course. The Fast Track intervention, a randomized controlled trial for children at risk of conduct problems, has lowered psychopathology, substance use problems, and criminality and elevated happiness at age 25. However, research has not studied whether the intervention's effects continue further into established adulthood. In addition, little is known about the mechanisms through which the intervention may affect adult outcomes. We attempted to answer both questions by simultaneously estimating the intervention's direct effect on adult outcomes at age 31 and the intervention's indirect effects on those outcomes via interpersonal, intraper

SUBMITTER: McCabe G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12034041 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature