Tracking procedures for locating high-risk youth.
Few published works are available that provide a comprehensive description of tracking procedures. This article describes the data collection tracking protocol that was used in Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), to follow high-risk youth over a 5 1/2 year period. Youth were followed from 1994 through 2000. A total of 35% of these youth were assessed 5 1/2 years later. Collapsing across the last two waves, 46% of these youth were followed an average of 5 years later. These procedures may be helpful in tracking highly mobile youth.
McCuller
William J
WJ
University of Southern California, USA.
Sussman
Steve
S
Holiday
Karen
K
Craig
Sande
S
Dent
Clyde W
CW
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