Outcomes from a randomized controlled trial of a multi-component alcohol use preventive intervention for urban youth: Project Northland Chicago

• Published in: Addiction (Abingdon, England) Vol. 103; no. 4; pp. 606 - 618
• Main Authors: Komro, Kelli A., Perry, Cheryl L., Veblen-Mortenson, Sara, Farbakhsh, Kian, Toomey, Traci L., Stigler, Melissa H., Jones-Webb, Rhonda, Kugler, Kari C., Pasch, Keryn E., Williams, Carolyn L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2008; Blackwell
• Subjects: Addictive behaviors; Adolescent; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol Drinking - epidemiology; Alcohol Drinking - prevention & control; Alcohol Drinking - trends; Alcohol prevention; Alcohol use; Alcoholism; Alcoholism and acute alcohol poisoning; Attitude to Health; Biological and medical sciences; Cannabis; Chicago - epidemiology; Child; Drug abuse; Drug addiction; Effectiveness studies; Ethnicity; Female; Health; Home based services; Humans; Illinois; Income; Intervention; intervention adaptation; low income; Low income groups; Low income people; Male; Medical sciences; Middle school students; Neighbourhoods; Prevention; Prevention and actions; Protective factors; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; School Health Services - standards; Schools; Schools - statistics & numerical data; Secondary school students; Social problems; Socioeconomic Factors; Students - psychology; Students - statistics & numerical data; Substance abuse; Toxicology; Urban areas; Urban Health - statistics & numerical data; urban youth; Youth; United States; North America; America; Chicago; Chicago Illinois; Alcohol prevention; Prognosis; ethnicity; Prevention; Alcoholic beverage; Randomization; Clinical trial; Evolution; Public health; Human; Consumption; Drug addiction; urban youth; Ethnic origin; Urban environment; Ethanol; Alcoholism; Controlled therapeutic trial; Ethnic group; Project; low income; Treatment; Addiction; Adolescent; intervention adaptation

ABSTRACT Aims  The goal of this group‐randomized trial was to test the effectiveness of an adapted alcohol use preventive intervention for urban, low‐income and multi‐ethnic settings. Design and setting  Sixty‐one public schools in Chicago were recruited to participate, were grouped into neighborhoo...