Abstract

In the past decade, prevention science has emerged as a discipline built on the integration of life course development research, community epidemiology, and preventive intervention trials. Prevention science postulates that negative health outcomes can be prevented by reducing or eliminating risk factors and enhancing protective factors in individuals and their environments during the course of development. A growing number of interventions have been found to be effective in preventing adolescent substance abuse, delinquency and violence by reducing risk and enhancing protection. However, despite these advances in the science base for effective preventive interventions and recent investments in community-wide preventive interventions, many communities continue to invest in prevention strategies with limited evidence of effectiveness. Translating the prevention science knowledge base into effective community prevention service systems has emerged as a priority for prevention services research. The current NIDA-funded Diffusion of State Risk/Protective-focused prevention project has begun to provide information about the diffusion and implementation of science-based prevention services planning and programming across 7 states and 41 communities within those states. Yet, many questions remain about how risk and protective factors operate within communities and about how community prevention services might best be organized to reduce risk, increase protection, and reduce the prevalence of adolescent problem behaviors in communities. This two-year competing continuation project extends the work completed in the Diffusion of State Risk/Protective-focused prevention project by conducting new analysis of data collected under that project. These analyses examine how risk and protective factors operate within the 41 communities, examine change over time in community prevention service system characteristics, and examine relationships over time between characteristics of community prevention service systems and community-level distributions and trends in risk factors, protective factors, and adolescent problem behaviors including substance use, violence, and delinquency.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
5R01DA010768-07
Application #
6608888
Study Section
Human Development Research Subcommittee (NIDA)
Program Officer
Robertson, Elizabeth
Project Start
1997-09-30
Project End
2005-06-30
Budget Start
2003-07-01
Budget End
2005-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$467,702
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Washington
Department
Type
Schools of Social Work
DUNS #
605799469
City
Seattle
State
WA
Country
United States
Zip Code
98195

  Publications

Fagan, Abigail A; Van Horn, M Lee; Hawkins, J David et al. (2013) Differential Effects of Parental Controls on Adolescent Substance Use: For Whom Is the Family Most Important? J Quant Criminol 29:347-368
Lee Van Horn, M; Smith, Jessalyn; Fagan, Abigail A et al. (2012) Not quite normal: Consequences of violating the assumption of normality in regression mixture models. Struct Equ Modeling 19:227-249
Egan, Elizabeth A; Van Horn, M Lee; Monahan, Kathryn C et al. (2012) Community-level Effects of Individual and Peer Risk and Protective Factors on Adolescent Substance Use. J Community Psychol 39:478-498
Fagan, Abigail A; Van Horn, M Lee; Antaramian, Susan et al. (2011) How Do Families Matter? Age and Gender Differences in Family Influences on Delinquency and Drug Use. Youth Violence Juv Justice 9:150-170
Fagan, Abigail A; Arthur, Michael W; Hanson, Koren et al. (2011) Effects of Communities That Care on the adoption and implementation fidelity of evidence-based prevention programs in communities: results from a randomized controlled trial. Prev Sci 12:223-34
Brown, Eric C; Hawkins, J David; Arthur, Michael W et al. (2008) Multilevel analysis of a measure of community prevention collaboration. Am J Community Psychol 41:115-26
Fagan, Abigail A; Van Horn, M Lee; Hawkins, J David et al. (2007) Gender similarities and differences in the association between risk and protective factors and self-reported serious delinquency. Prev Sci 8:115-24
Arthur, Michael W; Briney, John S; Hawkins, J David et al. (2007) Measuring risk and protection in communities using the Communities That Care Youth Survey. Eval Program Plann 30:197-211
Toumbourou, J W; Beyers, J M; Catalano, R F et al. (2005) Youth alcohol and other drug use in the United States and Australia: a cross-national comparison of three state-wide samples. Drug Alcohol Rev 24:515-23
Beyers, Jennifer M; Toumbourou, John W; Catalano, Richard F et al. (2004) A cross-national comparison of risk and protective factors for adolescent substance use: the United States and Australia. J Adolesc Health 35:3-16

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