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Pasch, Keryn E.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Stigler, Melissa H.; Komro, Kelli A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Young adolescent alcohol users drink at higher rates than their peers throughout adolescence and appear to be less amenable to intervention. This study compares those who reported alcohol use in the past year to those who reported no use in a multiethnic, urban sample of sixth graders in 61 schools in Chicago in 2002 (N = 4,150). Demographic,…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Drinking, Early Adolescents
Eischens, Alissa; Komro, Kelli A.; Perry, Cheryl L.; Bosma, Linda M.; Farbakhsh, Kian – American Journal of Health Education, 2004
The Minnesota Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) Plus project augmented the DARE curriculum with community, parent involvement, and extracurricular activity components. Of the 24 schools in the DARE Plus project, the 8 receiving the DARE Plus intervention are examined in this study. The association of participation in the extracurricular…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Intervention, Smoking, Drug Education