Format
Scientific article
Publication Date
Published by / Citation
Preventive Medicine: 2013, 56, p. 190-196.
Keywords
universal prevention
PROSPER
alcohol
illegal drugs
Strengthening Families Program
school
drug education
community
parenting
tobacco
cannabis Life Skills Training
Project Alert
All Stars
methodology
researcher allegiance
one-tailed tests
Bonferroni
multiple tests
age of onset

PROSPER Community-University Partnership Delivery System Effects on Substance Misuse

Evaluated prevention programmes are typically implemented by research teams, raising questions over real-world applicability, but a groundbreaking US trial is said to have produced a ‘robust’ demonstration of the potential of a system in which communities take the lead. Our detailed analysis suggests ‘robust’ is an adjective too far, and explains methodological concerns common to many prevention trials.