Adolescence Is a Sensitive Period for Housing Mobility to Influence Risky Behaviors: An Experimental Design.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Test whether neighborhood mobility effects on adolescent risky behaviors varies at different developmental ages and gender.

Methods

The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) study randomly assigned volunteer families (1994-1997) to receive a Section 8 voucher to move to lower poverty neighborhoods versus a public housing control group. We tested three-way treatment, gender, and age-at-randomization interactions using intent-to-treat linear regression predicting a risky behavior index (RBI; measured in 2002, N = 2,829), defined as the fraction of 10 behaviors the youth reported (six measuring risky substance use [RSU], four measuring risky sexual behavior), and the RSU and risky sexual behavior subscales.

Results

The treatment main effect on RBI was nonsignificant for gi

SUBMITTER: Schmidt NM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5366094 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature