Peer influence processes as mediators of effects of a middle school substance use prevention program.

CONCLUSIONS: Cooperative learning was able to significantly reduce the prevalence of both alcohol and tobacco use in friendship networks during the school year. The lower prevalence of alcohol and tobacco use among friends, in turn, reduced individual use at follow-up. This study was registered as trial NCT03119415 in ClinicalTrials.gov. PMID: 29921538 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29921538?dopt=Abstract

Source: Addictive Behaviors - June 28, 2018 Category: Addiction Authors: Van Ryzin MJ, Roseth CJ Tags: Addict Behav Source Type: research