Original articleLongitudinal Outcomes of an Alcohol Abuse Prevention Program for Urban Adolescents
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Participants
Study participants were 513 early adolescent girls and boys from greater New York City and its environs, including Trenton, NJ, and Wilmington, DE. The size of the study sample reflected statistical power calculations for finding small effect sizes [26]. Youths were recruited through the auspices of community-based agencies that provided such after-school services as recreation, tutoring, computer labs, and sports. On average, roughly 12 youths from each agency enrolled in the study. At the
Results
At 7-year follow-up, the sample had a mean age of 18.42 years (SD = 1.11), was 53.1% female, and was 51.6% Black, 27.4% Hispanic, 9.3% White, and 11.7% other ethnic–racial groups. As they did at baseline measurement, study arms differed in their ethnic–racial composition (p < .0001; Table 1). Outcome variable means and standard deviations for youths assigned to CD, CDP, and control arms at baseline and 7-year follow-up appear in Table 2.
At 7-year follow-up, youths' older age was associated with
Discussion
Seven years after initially receiving a computer-based substance abuse prevention program, a sample of late-adolescent youths continued to realize material benefits. Youths who received intervention, regardless of whether their parents also received intervention, reported less alcohol use, binge drinking, and cigarette smoking, relative to control-arm youths. That youths involved in the prevention program also were better able to refuse drinking opportunities, reported less peer pressure to
Acknowledgments
Supported by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant R01 AA11924.
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