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.

Core competencies and the prevention of adolescent substance use

“…One of the largest collaborative efforts to integrate core competencies into a prevention model emanated from a multisite evaluation of preventive interventions that aim to enhance behavioral self-regulation, parental involvement, school bonding, and social competence among children and youth (Tarter, Sambrano, & Dunn, 2002). Two programs, Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFEChildren; Gorman-Smith et al, 2002) and Coping Power (Lochman & Wells, 2002), are particularly instructive.…”

Participation Patterns Among Mexican–American Parents Enrolled in a Universal Intervention and Their Association with Child Externalizing Outcomes

“…Alternatively, parents who believe they already possess strong parenting skills may assess few benefits from participating and thus be less likely to participate (Perrino, Coatsworth, Briones, Pantin, & Szapocznik, 2001;Gorman-Smith et al, 2002). Accordingly, we examined the influence of parenting efficacy and parent self-report on two intervention-targeted parenting behaviors (monitoring and involvement in child's education) on attendance trajectories.…”

“…The few studies that have modeled attendance patterns used methods that do not account for unobserved heterogeneity in attendance across sessions and cannot model trajectories while also accounting for the influence of predictors on trajectories (e.g., Coatsworth, Duncan, Pantin, & Szapocznik, 2006b;Gorman-Smith et al,2002). To address these limitations and also build on the limited research examining predictors of intervention participation among MA parents, the current study used growth mixture modeling (GMM;Muthen, 2002;Nagin 2005) to simultaneously model attendance patterns and examine predictors of patterns among MA parents enrolled in Bridges to High School (Bridges), a school-based universal intervention to prevent problem behaviors and academic disengagement following the middle school transition (Gonzales et al, 2012a).…”

Parent Participation Within Community Center or In-Home Outreach Delivery Models of the Early Risers Conduct Problems Prevention Program

“…Many participant characteristics have been investigated for their relationship to parent participation in prevention and treatment targeting children's problem behavior. Family demographic variables such as minority status, lower socio-economic status, single parent status, and larger family size have been associated with indicators of lower parent participation rates (August et al 2003;Coatsworth et al 2006;Gorman-Smith et al 2002;Kazdin et al 1995;Lavigne et al 2010;Scott et al 2010). Several studies show lower parent participation is associated with higher severity of child behavior problems (August et al 2003;Boxmeyer and Lochman 2006;Gorman-Smith et al 2002;Watt et al 2007), while one study showed that parents participate more when their child has more severe behavior problems (Dumas et al 2007).…”

“…Family demographic variables such as minority status, lower socio-economic status, single parent status, and larger family size have been associated with indicators of lower parent participation rates (August et al 2003;Coatsworth et al 2006;Gorman-Smith et al 2002;Kazdin et al 1995;Lavigne et al 2010;Scott et al 2010). Several studies show lower parent participation is associated with higher severity of child behavior problems (August et al 2003;Boxmeyer and Lochman 2006;Gorman-Smith et al 2002;Watt et al 2007), while one study showed that parents participate more when their child has more severe behavior problems (Dumas et al 2007). Parents (primarily mothers) exhibiting high stress, distress, and/or mood difficulties are at risk for poor participation (Capage et al 2001;Chronis et al 2004;Kazdin et al 1995;Werba et al 2006), and one study showed that less participation was predicted by higher levels of parents' frustration in the parent-child relationship (Bloomquist et al 2009).…”