title: Predictors of participation in a family-focused preventive intervention for substance use.
abstract: This study reports patterns of involvement in a family-focused preventive intervention, Schools and Families Educating (SAFE) Children, targeting early predictors of risk for delinquency and drug use among 175 African American and Latino first-grade children living in economically disadvantaged inner-city neighborhoods. Three empirically derived patterns emerged: joiners, responders, and minimal responders. Joiners were immediately responsive and enthusiastic and participated fully. Responders attended fully only after extensive effort was made to recruit and retain them. However, once engaged, they attended fully and participated with enthusiasm. Minimal responders attended a few sessions sporadically even with extensive, ongoing effort to engage them. Ethnicity, marital status, parental antisocial behavior, economic and loss stressors, monitoring, and child's depression and hyperactivity were significant discriminators of group membership.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Juvenile Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago, 60612, USA. debgs@uic.edu
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gorman-Smith
authors.forename: Patrick H
authors.initials: PH
authors.lastname: Tolan
authors.forename: David B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Henry
authors.forename: Amy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Leventhal
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schoeny
authors.forename: Kelly
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lutovsky
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Quintana
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005195:Family Relations; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011314:Preventive Health Services; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*