Effects of a federal housing voucher experiment on adolescent binge drinking: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To test how a housing voucher generating residential mobility to lower-poverty neighborhoods, compared with public housing controls, influenced adolescent binge drinking, and whether gender modified effects.

Design

A multi-site household-level three-arm randomized trial of a housing intervention executed 1994-98, evaluated 2001-02.

Setting

Five US cities: Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; and New York, NY.

Participants

A total of 3537 adolescents in 4248 low-income eligible families were randomized; 2829 adolescents were analyzed at the interim evaluation (1950 in treatment; 879 in the control group). Attrition bias was accounted for with a 3-in-10 oversampling of hard-to-reach participants (effective response rate: 89%).

Interven

SUBMITTER: Osypuk TL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6446894 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature