title: Preventing substance use among Black and Hispanic adolescent girls: results from a computer-delivered, mother-daughter intervention approach.
abstract: This 2008 study involved 546 Black and Hispanic American adolescent girls and their mothers from New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Participants provided self-report data. Analysis of covariance indicated that the experimental intervention reduced risk factors, improved protective factors, and lowered girls' alcohol use and their future intentions to use substances. The study supports the value of computer-based and gender-specific interventions that involve girls and their mothers. Future work needs to replicate and strengthen study results.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, Columbia University, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA. schinke@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Steven P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Schinke
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Kristin C
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Cole
authors.forename: Sally
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cohen-Cutler
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002648:Child; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009034:Mother-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D016487:Parenting / Q000523:psychology*; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000379:methods*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface