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Morgan Faith Schneider – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The leading cause of preventable disease, disability, and death in the United States is tobacco product use. The 2022 National Youth Tobacco Survey, which was completed in 2022, showed that the e-cigarette epidemic among youth continues to remain a public health threat. The survey revealed that over 2.5 million middle and high school students…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 7, Smoking, Prevention
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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
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Kira, Yugo; Matsumoto, Misuzu; Kambara, Kohei; Ogata, Akiko – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2023
In Japan, many high school students have severe depression. Preventive interventions for school-based cognitive-behavioral depression are effective countermeasures against depressive problems among high school students. However, since high school curriculums are time-consuming, such interventions are less common among high school students.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Depression (Psychology), Prevention
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Waasdorp, Tracy Evian; Paskewich, Brooke S.; Waanders, Christine; Fu, Rui; Leff, Stephen S. – Prevention Science, 2022
The Preventing Relational Aggression in Schools Everyday (PRAISE) Program is a school-based program that has shown promise for reducing aggression. PRAISE, 20-session classroom-based universal prevention program, was designed to be appropriate and responsive to the needs of youth within the urban school context. A preliminary trial of PRAISE…
Descriptors: Aggression, Prevention, School Activities, Youth
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Damra, Jalal K.; Omari, Omar Al – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
Abstract This study aimed to evaluate the short-term effects of the social networking safety promotion and cyberbullying prevention presentation of the Arizona attorney general's guided by the extended parallel process model (EPPM). A quasi-experimental (a pre-posttest) was used with two groups with random assignment to intervention. A total of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Prevention, Intervention
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Bonell, Chris; Taylor, Bruce; Berry, Vashti; Priolo Filho, Sidnei R.; Rizzo, Andrew; Farmer, Caroline; Hagell, Ann; Young, Honor; Orr, Noreen; Shaw, Naomi; Chollet, Annah; Kiff, Fraizer; Rigby, Emma; Melendez-Torres, G. J. – Research Synthesis Methods, 2023
Conventional systematic reviews offer few insights into for whom and how interventions work. 'Realist reviews' examine such questions via examining 'context-mechanism-outcome configurations' (CMOCs) but are insufficiently rigorous in how evidence is identified, assessed and synthesised. We developed 'realist systematic reviews', addressing similar…
Descriptors: School Activities, Dating (Social), Interpersonal Relationship, Interpersonal Attraction
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Hensums, Maud; de Mooij, Brechtje; Kuijper, Steven C.; Cross, Donna; Cross, Donna; DeSmet, Ann; Garandeau, Claire F.; Joronen, Katja; Leadbeater, Bonnie; Menesini, Ersilia; Palladino, Benedetta Emanuela; Salmivalli, Christina; Solomontos-Kountouri, Olga; Veenstra, René; Fekkes, Minne; Overbeek, Geertjan – Prevention Science, 2023
The prevalence of bullying worldwide is high (UNESCO, 2018). Over the past decades, many anti-bullying interventions have been developed to remediate this problem. However, we lack insight into for whom these interventions work and what individual intervention components drive the total intervention effects. We conducted a large-scale individual…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Young Adults, Bullying
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Rebecca G. Mirick; James Mccauley – School Social Work Journal, 2023
Youth suicide is a critical public health issue. School-based suicide prevention programs are one strategy to address youth suicide. This research study explores students' (N = 2,806) perspectives on the SOS Signs of Suicide program, a school-based suicide prevention program for youth in grades six through twelve that includes education and…
Descriptors: Suicide, Prevention, Student Attitudes, School Activities
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Cowan, Rebecca; Cole, Rebekah F.; Craigen, Laurie – Professional Counselor, 2019
The purpose of this qualitative collective case study was to explore the experiences of four key internal stakeholders who are involved with a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program in a southeastern state in the United States. In order to explore the experiences of participants, in-depth, semistructured interviews were conducted.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Prevention, School Activities
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Giombi, Kristen; Wiecha, Jean; Vine, Jackie; Rogers, Victoria W. – American Journal of Health Education, 2018
Background: Let's Go! is a Maine-based, nationally recognized childhood obesity prevention program. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to identify specific program and school characteristics, policies, and practices associated with schools achieving Let's Go!'s priority strategies for increasing opportunities for healthy eating/active living…
Descriptors: Obesity, Health Programs, Prevention, Institutional Characteristics
De La Rue, Lisa; Polanin, Joshua R.; Espelage, Dorothy L.; Pigott, Terri D. – Review of Educational Research, 2017
The incidence of violence in dating relationships has a significant impact on young people, including decreased mental and physical health. This review is the first to provide a quantitative synthesis of empirical evaluations of school-based programs implemented in middle and high schools that sought to prevent or reduce incidents of dating…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Dating (Social), Adolescents
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Benard, Bonnie; Marshall, Kathy – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2016
It is no surprise to educators and prevention specialists that for more than two decades, the majority of evaluation studies of individual psychosocial prevention strategies not only in substance-abuse prevention but in all of social science research have failed to find sustained positive outcomes (Feldman, 1983; Kreft & Brown, 1998). Many…
Descriptors: Meta Analysis, Drug Abuse, Prevention, Program Effectiveness
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Guillot-Wright, Shannon P.; Lu, Yu; Torres, Elizabeth D.; Le, Vi D.; Hall, Hannah R.; Temple, Jeff R. – School Mental Health, 2018
Despite the effectiveness of some school-based programs to prevent teen dating violence, the burden it puts on schools and teachers presents a unique challenge. A simple, low-cost alternative is a text message campaign. Data suggest that most adolescents have access to a mobile phone, and texting is the leading form of social interaction. The…
Descriptors: Dating (Social), Communication Strategies, Written Language, Telecommunications
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Leuschner, Vincenz; Fiedler, Nora; Schultze, Martin; Ahlig, Nadine; Göbel, Kristin; Sommer, Friederike; Scholl, Johanna; Cornell, Dewey; Scheithauer, Herbert – Child Development, 2017
The standardized, indicated school-based prevention program "Networks Against School Shootings" combines a threat assessment approach with a general model of prevention of emergency situations in schools through early intervention in student psychosocial crises and training teachers to recognize warning signs of targeted school violence.…
Descriptors: Prevention, Violence, Early Intervention, School Activities
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Garmy, Pernilla; Jakobsson, Ulf; Carlsson, Katarina Steen; Berg, Agneta; Clausson, Eva K. – Journal of School Nursing, 2015
The aim of this pilot study was to evaluate the implementation of a universal school-based cognitive behavioral program whose target is to prevent depressive symptoms in adolescents. The study had a quasi-experimental design with pretest, posttest, and a 1-year follow-up and provides an illustrative calculation for the implementation costs of the…
Descriptors: Prevention, Depression (Psychology), Adolescents, Cognitive Restructuring
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