Youth problem behaviors 8 years after implementing the communities that care prevention system: a community-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Community-based efforts to prevent adolescent problem behaviors are essential to promote public health and achieve collective impact community wide. OBJECTIVE To test whether the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system reduced levels of risk and adolescent problem behaviors community wide 8 years after implementation of CTC.

Design, setting, and participants

A community-randomized trial was performed in 24 small towns in 7 states, matched within state, assigned randomly to a control or intervention group in 2003. All fifth-grade students attending public schools in study communities in 2003-2004 who received consent from their parents to participate (76.4% of the eligible population) were included. A panel of 4407 fifth graders was surveyed through 12th grad

SUBMITTER: Hawkins JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3946405 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature