Impact of early intervention on psychopathology, crime, and well-being at age 25.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This randomized controlled trial tested the efficacy of early intervention to prevent adult psychopathology and improve well-being in early-starting conduct-problem children.

Method

Kindergarteners (N=9,594) in three cohorts (1991-1993) at 55 schools in four communities were screened for conduct problems, yielding 979 early starters. A total of 891 (91%) consented (51% African American, 47% European American; 69% boys). Children were randomly assigned by school cluster to a 10-year intervention or control. The intervention goal was to develop social competencies in children that would carry them throughout life, through social skills training, parent behavior-management training with home visiting, peer coaching, reading tutoring, and classroom social-emotional cur

SUBMITTER: Dodge KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4485380 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature