Differential intervention effectiveness of a universal school-based resilience intervention in reducing adolescent substance use within student subgroups: exploratory assessment within a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Interventions addressing the individual and environmental protective factors of adolescents are suggested to have potential for reducing adolescent substance use. While universally delivered school-based substance use prevention interventions are common, previous studies have suggested variable effectiveness by subgroups of students. An exploratory study was undertaken to examine the differential effectiveness of a universal school-based resilience intervention on adolescent substance use and protective factors according to their sociodemographic and previous substance use.

Design

Secondary analysis of data from a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Setting

32 Australian secondary schools.

Participants

Cohort of grade 7 students (n=3155) followed up

SUBMITTER: Hodder RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6119444 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature