Effects of Positive Action on the emotional health of urban youth: a cluster-randomized trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

We examined the effects of Positive Action (PA), a school-based social-emotional learning and health promotion program, on the emotional health of predominately low-income and ethnic minority urban youth.

Methods

The study was a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial involving 14 Chicago public schools. Outcomes were assessed over a 6-year period of program implementation for a cohort of youth in each school, followed from grades 3 to 8. Youth reported on their emotional health (positive affect, life satisfaction, depression, anxiety) and social-emotional and character development. Growth-curve and structural-equation modeling analyses assessed overall program effects on the emotional health outcomes as well as mediation of these effects via the program's

SUBMITTER: Lewis KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6496952 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature