Outcomes of Childhood Preventive Intervention Across 2 Generations: A Nonrandomized Controlled Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Trials of preventive interventions for children that were implemented in the 1980s have reported sustained positive outcomes on behavioral and health outcomes into adulthood, years after the end of the intervention. This present study examines whether intervention in childhood may show sustained benefits across generations.

Objective

To examine possible intervention outcomes on the offspring of individuals (now parents) who participated in the Raising Healthy Children preventive intervention as children in the elementary grades.

Design, setting, and participants

This nonrandomized controlled trial was conducted in public elementary schools serving high-crime areas in Seattle, Washington. The panel originated in Seattle but was followed up locally and in out

SUBMITTER: Hill KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7281355 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature