Department of Educational Psychology.
Psychol Addict Behav. 2021 Nov;35(7):797-802. doi: 10.1037/adb0000713. Epub 2021 Mar 18.
Substance use treatment for adolescents may decrease not only substance use, but also other related outcomes such as externalizing behaviors. Although positively correlated to substance use in youth, externalizing behaviors are not commonly measured as outcomes in the context of substance use treatment. This study seeks to generalize the outcomes of substance use treatment to externalizing behaviors in a sample of Latino/a adolescents who participated in a randomized clinical trial.
Secondary data analysis was conducted using a longitudinal mixed model to test the outcomes of two versions of a cognitive-behavioral substance use treatment (i.e., standard and culturally accommodated) on externalizing behaviors. Participants were Latino/a adolescents ( = 70) diagnosed with a substance use disorder randomized into one of the two study conditions.
The results indicated that Latino/a adolescents in both treatment conditions significantly decreased in self-reported externalizing behaviors from pretreatment to 12-months posttreatment.
Implications from this study suggest that participation in substance use treatment for Latino/a adolescents may also generalize to other outcomes such as externalizing behaviors. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
青少年的物质使用治疗不仅可以减少物质使用,还可以减少其他相关结果,如外化行为。尽管外化行为与青少年的物质使用呈正相关,但在物质使用治疗的背景下,它们通常不作为结果进行测量。本研究旨在将物质使用治疗的结果推广到参与随机临床试验的拉丁裔青少年样本中的外化行为。
使用纵向混合模型对两种认知行为物质使用治疗(即标准和文化适应)对外化行为的结果进行二次数据分析。参与者为被诊断患有物质使用障碍的拉丁裔青少年(n = 70),随机分配到两种研究条件之一。
结果表明,两种治疗条件下的拉丁裔青少年自我报告的外化行为从治疗前到 12 个月后都显著减少。
本研究的意义表明,参加物质使用治疗的拉丁裔青少年也可能推广到其他结果,如外化行为。