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Sustaining a School-Based Prevention Program: Results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project
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Fagen, Michael C.; Flay, Brian R. – Health Education & Behavior, 2009
Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors…
Descriptors: African American Children, Prevention, Drug Use, Health Promotion
The Impact of Age and Type of Intervention on Youth Violent Behaviors
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Jagers, Robert J.; Morgan-Lopez, Antonio A.; Flay, Brian R. – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
This study compared the impact of the Aban Aya Youth Project (AAYP; Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 158: 377-384, 2004) social development classroom curriculum (SDC), school/family/community (SC) intervention curriculum, and a health enhancement curriculum (HEC) attention placebo control on changes over time in violent behaviors…
Descriptors: Intervention, Prevention, Grade 5, Social Development
Violence Prevention Among African American Adolescent Males
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Ngwe, Job E.; Liu, Li C.; Flay, Brian R.; Segawa, Eisuke; Aban Aya, – American Journal of Health Behavior, 2004
Objective: To test psychosocial mediators of the effects of an intervention in reducing the rate of growth of violence among adolescents. Method: Five hundred and seventy-one African American adolescent males participated in this randomized trial. Multilevel modeling techniques were used to ascertain both intervention and mediated effects.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Prevention, Intervention, Violence
Evaluation of the Effects of the Aban Aya Youth Project in Reducing Violence among African American Adolescent Males Using Latent Class Growth Mixture Modeling Techniques
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Segawa, Eisuke; Ngwe, Job E.; Li, Yanhong; Flay, Brian R. – Evaluation Review, 2005
This study employs growth mixture modeling techniques to evaluate the preventive effects of the Aban Aya Youth Project in reducing the rate of growth of violence among African American adolescent males (N = 552). Results suggest three distinct classes of participants: high risk (34%), medium risk (54%), and low risk (12%) based on both the…
Descriptors: Males, Adolescents, Violence, African Americans