Kim Hyoun K, Pears Katherine C, Leve Leslie D, Chamberlain Patricia C, Smith Dana K
Oregon Social Learning Center.
J Child Adolesc Subst Abuse. 2013 Nov 1;22(5):370-387. doi: 10.1080/1067828X.2013.788880.
The present study examined the effects of the Middle School Success intervention (MSS), a program to promote healthy adjustment in foster girls, on their health-risking sexual behavior, using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design. As hypothesized, girls in the intervention condition ( = 48) showed significantly lower levels of health-risking sexual behavior than did girls in the control condition ( = 52) at 36 months postbaseline. Further path analysis indicated that this intervention effect was fully mediated through its effects on girls' tobacco and marijuana use. Findings highlight the importance of providing preventive intervention services to foster girls during early adolescence.
本研究采用随机对照试验(RCT)设计,考察了中学成功干预项目(MSS)对寄养女童健康风险性行为的影响,该项目旨在促进寄养女童的健康适应。正如所假设的那样,在基线后36个月时,干预组的女童(n = 48)与对照组的女童(n = 52)相比,健康风险性行为水平显著较低。进一步的路径分析表明,这种干预效果完全是通过其对女童烟草和大麻使用的影响来介导的。研究结果凸显了在青春期早期为寄养女童提供预防性干预服务的重要性。