Intergenerational effects of the Fast Track intervention on the home environment: A randomized control trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Maladaptive family environments harm child development and are passed across generations. Childhood interventions may break this intergenerational cycle by improving the family environments children form as adults. The present study investigates this hypothesis by examining follow-up data collected 18 years after the end of the childhood Fast Track intervention designed to prevent externalizing problems.

Methods

We examined whether Fast Track assignment from grades 1 to 10 prevented the emergence of maladaptive family environments at age 34. A total of 400 (n = 206 in intervention condition, n = 194 controls) Fast Track participants who were parents at age 34 were surveyed about 11 aspects of their current family environment. The hypotheses and analytic plan were

SUBMITTER: Rothenberg WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9751232 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature