Relationship Between Unsupervised Time and Participation in an Emotion Regulation Intervention and Risk Outcomes.
Relationship Between Unsupervised Time and Participation in an Emotion Regulation Intervention and Risk Outcomes.
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10.1097/dbp.0000000000000498
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发表时间：
2017
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Houck CD
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Hadley W;Barker D;Thamotharan S;Houck CD
This study is a secondary analysis of outcomes examining sex and substance use risk behavior in the context of the naturalistic occurrence of parental monitoring and participation in an emotion regulation intervention over a 12-month period. Early adolescents with mental health symptoms (N=420), ages 12–14 years, were recruited, enrolled, and randomized into either an Emotional Regulation (ER) or Health Promotion (HP) control condition. Assessments included adolescent self-report of unsupervised time, substance use and sexual behavior at baseline, 6-months, and one year post intervention. Analytic groups were formed by intervention condition (ER or HP) and baseline reports of unsupervised time (≤1X per week or >1X per week of unsupervised time with opposite sex peers) resulting in a total of four groups. Logistic regression and time-to-event analyses were used to test differences in substance use and delay of sexual initiation between the groups. Participation in an emotional regulation intervention in the presence of low unsupervised time was superior in reducing both substance use and sexual initiation than either factor alone; and either factor alone was more effective than the absence of both. Findings suggest that interventions targeting health risk behaviors, including substance use and sexual risk behavior, among early adolescents with mental health symptoms may be more effective when targeting both internal (e.g., emotional regulation) and external (e.g., unsupervised time spent with peers) protective factors. Limiting unsupervised time spent with peers through parental monitoring may serve to scaffold and reinforce early adolescent acquisition of effective emotion regulation which can be employed during emotionally arousing risk situations.
