Friendly PEERsuasionSM Against Substance Use: The Girls IncorporatedSM Model and Evaluation
Friendly PEERsuasionSM Against Substance Use: The Girls IncorporatedSM Model and Evaluation
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友好同伴劝说SM反对药物使用:The Girls IncorporatedSM模型和评估
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1998
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H. Nicholson
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Faedra Lazar Weiss Mahl;H. Nicholson
SUMMARY Girls Incorporated Friendly PEERsuasion is a leadership and substance abuse prevention program based on the social influence model. Girls in grades 6–8 considered to be at high risk for substance use were recruited in four geographically and ethnically diverse communities, with participants randomly assigned to Fall 1988 “treatment” and Spring 1989 “comparison” participation (delayed entry model). Outcomes of interest were avoiding any use of harmful substances and leaving situations in which peers were using harmful substances. At the Birmingham, Alabama program site, where the program was implemented almost exactly as designed, an evaluation using survival analysis techniques included 118 girls (47 treatment, 71 comparison). A second evaluation using logistic regression compared the behavior of 354 participants (152 treatment, 202 comparison) across all four sites. Friendly PEERsuasion proved moderately effective, particularly for the youngest participants (p < .10). Evaluation results and subse...