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Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health Research Profile
Adolescents
Away from Home and Out of School
A follow-on to the study "Community Characteristics and Physical Activity Among Adolescent Girls" to determine whether a relationship exists between individuals’ interactions with their environments away from home and their total physical activity and body mass index.
Contact: Deborah Cohen, MD, MPH (Deborah_Cohen@rand.org)Friendship Networks and Youth Smoking
A study using social network analysis, applied to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health, to investigate how friendship networks are related to patterns of youth smoking over time.
Contact: Joan Tucker, PhD (Joan_Tucker@rand.org)Brief Substance Use Intervention for Youth in Teen Court
Adapting and testing an efficacious group intervention among teens who have committed a first–time alcohol or other drug misdemeanor offense with the goal of reducing alcohol and drug use and related consequences among this population.
Contact: Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD (Elizabeth_D’Amico@rand.org)Brief Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Intervention for Middle School Youth
A five–year longitudinal study to conduct a more rigorous test of Project CHOICE, the only voluntary intervention tested for middle school youth, in a larger, ethnically diverse school population.
Contact: Elizabeth D’Amico, PhD (Elizabeth_D’Amico@rand.org)Classroom Drug Prevention
An evaluation of the long-term results from ALERT Plus, a combination middle school and high school drug-prevention curriculum that aims to sustain the positive effects of Project ALERT currently used in middle schools.
Contact: Phyllis Ellickson, PhD (Phyllis_Ellickson@rand.org)Project SNaX: A Healthy Living Study
In collaboration with Los Angeles Unified School District and key community stakeholders, a study to design and pilot test an intervention aimed at promoting healthy eating and physical activity among an ethnically diverse sample of middle school youth.
Contact: Jennifer Hawes-Dawson, BA (Jennifer_Hawes-Dawson@rand.org)Assessment of the School Health Nursing Program
An assessment of how the School Health Nursing Program uses its resources to provide health services to students in Washington, D.C., public schools, with specific attention to access to care, quality of services, and barriers to care.
Contact: Anita Chandra, DrPH (Anita_Chandra@rand.org)CBITS: Aiding Students Exposed to Violence
Ongoing work with the Cognitive-Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), including a national expansion in conjunction with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network.
Contact: Lisa Jaycox, PhD (Lisa_Jaycox@rand.org)CBITS: Trauma Intervention for Foster Care Youth
Dissemination of an adaptation and implementation manual for CBITS for youth in foster care.
Contact: Dana Schultz, MPP (Dana_Schultz@rand.org)Promising Strategies for Increasing Immunization Among Low-Income Adolescents
A study to identify a set of best practices for increasing the use of recommended vaccines by low–income adolescents and to develop recommendations for adapting and expanding best practices for this population.
Contact: Katherine Harris, PhD (Katherine_Harris@rand.org)Long-Term Effects of a Works-Site Parenting Program
A continuation of the evaluation of Talking Parents, Healthy Teens, a work-site—based parenting program to help parents improve their communication with their sixth to tenth graders and promote healthy sexual development and risk reduction.
Contact: David Kanouse, PhD (David_Kanouse@rand.org)Drug Use, Social Context, and HIV Risk in Homeless Youth
A multifaceted approach to better understanding the social context of sexual behaviors and drug use among homeless youth, with the goal of informing intervention efforts aimed at reducing the spread of HIV in this growing population.
Contact: Joan Tucker, PhD (Joan_Tucker@rand.org)
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