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Phyllis Holditch Niolon; Lianne F. Estefan; Sarah DeGue; Vi D. Le; Allison J. Tracy; Colleen Ray; Daniel Bontempo; Todd D. Little; Alana M. Vivolo-Kantor; Natasha Latzman; Bruce Taylor; Andra Tharp – Prevention Science, 2024
Teen dating violence (TDV) is a significant public health problem that can have lifelong consequences. Using a longitudinal, cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT), this study examines whether the "Dating Matters" comprehensive prevention model, implemented in middle school, prevented TDV and negative relationship behaviors and…
Descriptors: Crime, Violence, Dating (Social), Grade 9
Kyung-Ah Kang; Shin-Jeong Kim; SoRa Kang; JungMin Lee – Journal of School Nursing, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the effects of a violence-prevention education program using empathy (VPEP-E) on elementary school students. This quasi-experimental design examined fifth-grade students' (a) empathy level, (b) perception of violence, and (c) permissive and negligent attitudes toward violence, using a pre- and post-test design. A…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Violence
Sunhye Bai; Gregory M. Fosco; Mark E. Feinberg; Richard L. Spoth – Prevention Science, 2025
Universal and selective preventive interventions targeting youth behavioral problems have shown crossover effects on suicide risk, the second leading cause of death among youth. However, the mechanisms that explain this long-term unanticipated benefit are understudied and unclear. The current study examines the crossover effects of PROSPER, a…
Descriptors: Prevention, Intervention, Grade 6, Adolescents
Heather L. McDaniel; Alexa C. Budavari; Alexandra T. Tonigan; Ava E. Michael; Stephen G. West; Nisha Gottfredson O'Shea; Nicole P. Powell; Lixin Qu; Lissette M. Saavedra; Anna C. Yaros; Catherine P. Bradshaw; John E. Lochman; Antonio A. Morgan-López – Grantee Submission, 2025
Objective: Despite evidence-based interventions for the psychiatric disorders that often precede suicidality, suicide remains a leading cause of death among youth. There has been increased interest in whether preventive interventions targeting early risk factors lead to decreased distal risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB). We examined…
Descriptors: Prevention, Suicide, Risk Management, Coping
Valenzuela, Daniela; Turunen, Tiina; Gana, Sofía; Rojas-Barahona, Cristian A.; Araya, Ricardo; Salmivalli, Christina; Gaete, Jorge – Prevention Science, 2022
Bullying is a major health problem. The KiVa antibullying program has been evaluated in Finland and other European countries, showing preventive effects on self-reported bullying victimization and perpetration. No evaluations of this program have been conducted in Latin America. A cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted at socially…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bullying, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
Javier Murillo-Moraño; Miguel Ángel Pérez-Sousa; Álvaro Morente Montero; Juan de Dios Benítez-Sillero – Health Education Journal, 2025
Background: School bullying is a social problem that is receiving increasing scientific attention, with physical education (PE) emerging as a domain in which to address perpetration and victimisation. Objective: This study aimed to assess the efficacy of the Prevention of Bullying in Physical Education (PREBULLPE) programme, and cooperative…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Bullying, Prevention, Intervention
Chloé Tolmatcheff; René Veenstra; Isabelle Roskam; Benoit Galand – Prevention Science, 2024
This study examined the relation between both implementation fidelity and quality and the outcomes of two different anti-bullying interventions targeting distinct processes involved in bullying: moral disengagement and social norms. In total, 34 French-speaking Belgian teachers from six elementary schools were trained to deliver either the moral…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Grade 4, Grade 5
Hsieh, Hsing-Fang; Lee, Daniel B.; Zimmerman, Marc A.; Pomerantz, Naomi; Cunningham, Mary C.; Messman, Elizabeth; Stoddard, Sarah A.; Grodzinski, Alison R.; Heinze, Justin E. – Journal of School Violence, 2022
We examined the effectiveness of the "Say Something Anonymous Reporting System" (SS-ARS) program in improving school safety in a cluster randomized control trial among over 700 students in 19 middle schools in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The SS-ARS is a program that emphasizes youth engagement and trains youth to recognize…
Descriptors: Prevention, Violence, Educational Environment, Middle Schools
Treadway, Caitlyn L. – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The United States is in the top ten out of 108 countries for the highest juvenile offender percentage (Harrendorf, Heiskanen, & Malby, 2010). Interaction with the juvenile court system has significant iatrogenic effects (Steinberg, Chung, & Little, 2004; Gatti, Tremblay, & Vitaro, 2009; McCord, 1992; Gatti, Tremblay, & Vitaro,…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Crime Prevention, Program Effectiveness, At Risk Students
Kozina, Ana – European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2021
FRIENDS for Life is an anxiety prevention programme that integrates cognitive behavioural approach with social and emotional learning. The current study examines the effects of the FRIENDS for Life programme in a school environment, with outcomes focusing on anxiety and aggression. The theoretical basis for the joint prevention and intervention of…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Social Emotional Learning, Prevention, Anxiety
Rebecca A. Schwartz-Mette; Hannah R. Lawrence; Eliot Fearey; Jessica Shankman; Janet Nichols; Joy Walters; Elena Perello; Susan Smith – School Mental Health, 2024
The FRIENDS Resilience programs provide cognitive-behavioral skills across the developmental spectrum and can be applied as a universal or selective prevention program. In the current study, we assessed whether, relative to the schools' existing counseling curriculum ("guidance"), FRIENDS improved social skills, problem behaviors, and…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Evaluation, Mental Health Programs, Program Effectiveness
Rose, Roderick A.; Bowen, Natasha K. – Journal of Educational Research, 2021
The disengagement that leads to school dropout may start as early as middle school, but may be interrupted by motivational interventions. One approach is to promote the relevance of content through explanations and demonstrations of the value of this content to students' futures. CareerStart is an intervention that provides teachers prepackaged…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Middle School Students, Intervention, Learner Engagement
Kang, So Ra; Kim, Shin-Jeong; Kang, Kyung-Ah – Journal of School Nursing, 2022
The purpose of this study was to test the effects of a child sexual abuse prevention education program using a hybrid application (CSAPE-H) by examining fifth-grade students' (a) knowledge for sexual abuse prevention and (b) self-protective behaviors against sexual abuse. A quasi-experimental, pretest /posttest design was used. Sixty-eight…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Prevention, Grade 5
Midgett, Aida; Doumas, Diana M. – Contemporary School Psychology, 2020
Bullying is a significant problem in the USA, with 1 in 5 middle school students reporting being a target of bullying. Although prevalence rates of bullying are higher among students in low-income communities and among minority students in ethnically blended schools, the majority of research on bullying prevention has been conducted with primarily…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Prevention, Bullying
Nurumal, Mohd Said; Zain, Siti Hajar Mohd; Mohamed, Mohamad Haniki Nik; Shorey, Shefaly – Journal of School Nursing, 2021
Preventing smoking among adolescents is critical. This study evaluated the effectiveness of the Smoking Prevention Education Program among nonsmoking adolescents. A quasi-experimental study design was used. Data were collected from Year 5 students (n = 140) from four government primary schools in the Kuantan and Pahang districts of Malaysia. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Smoking, Prevention, Grade 5