Effectiveness of the Strengthening Families Programme in the UK at preventing substance misuse in 10-14 year-olds: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The Strengthening Families Programme 10-14 (SFP10-14) is a USA-developed universal group-based intervention aiming to prevent substance misuse by strengthening protective factors within the family. This study evaluated a proportionate universal implementation of the adapted UK version (SFP10-14UK) which brought together families identified as likely/not likely to experience/present challenges within a group setting.

Design

Pragmatic cluster-randomised controlled effectiveness trial, with families as the unit of randomisation and embedded process and economic evaluations.

Setting

The study took place in seven counties of Wales, UK.

Participants

715 families (919 parents/carers, 931 young people) were randomised.

Interventions

Families randomise

SUBMITTER: Segrott J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8862464 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature