An ounce of prevention research: What is it worth?

American Journal of Community Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 189-195

  Koretz, Doreen Spilton ^a   Mościcki, Eve K ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; ORGANIZATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE (U.S.); MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; META-ANALYSIS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031114116     PISSN: 00910562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024662228463     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Bauman, L. J., Stein, R. E. K., & Ireys, H. (1991). Reinvesting fidelity: The transfer of social technology among settings. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 619-639.
2. Brown, C. H., & Liao, J. (1996). Principles for designing randomized prevention trials in mental health, http://yates.coph.usf.edu/research/psmg.
3. Coie, J. D., Watt, N. F., West, S., Hawkins, J. D., Asarnow, J., Markman, H., Ramey, S. L., Shore, M., & Long, B. (1993). The science of prevention: A conceptual framework and some directions for a national research agenda. American Psychologist, 48, 1013-1022.
4. Durlak, J. A., & Wells, A. M. (1997). Primary prevention mental health programs for children and adolescents: A meta-analytic review. American Journal of Community Psychology, 25, 115-152.
5. Gersten, J. C., Beats, J., & Kallgren, C. (1991). Epidemiology and preventive interventions: Parental death in childhood as a case example. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 481-500.
6. Gordon, R. S. Jr. (1983). An operational classification of disease prevention. Public Health Reports, 98, 107-109.
7. Greenwald, P., & Cullen, J. W. (1984). The scientific approach to cancer control. Canadian-American Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 34, 328-332.
8. Kellam, S. G., & Rebok, G. W. (1992). Building developmental and etiological theory through epidemiologically based preventive intervention trials. In J. McCord & R. E. Tremblay (Eds.), Preventing antisocial behavior: Interventions from birth through adolescence (pp. 162-195). New York: Guilford.
9. Kessler, R. C., & Price, R. H. (1993). Primary prevention of secondary disorders: A proposal and agenda. American Journal of Community Psychology, 21(5), 607-634.
10. Kraemer, H. C, Kazdin, A. E., Offord, D. R., Kessler, R. C, Jensen, P. S., & Kupfer, D. J. (in press). Archives of General Psychiatry: Coming to terms with the terms of risk.
11. Mayer, L. S., & Warsi, G. (1996). Attributable risks and prevented fractions in a proximal distal impact model. Paper submitted for publication.
12. Moffitt, T. E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.
13. Mrazek, P. J., & Haggerry, R. J. (Eds.). (1994). Reducing risks for mental disorders: Frontiers for preventive intervention research. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.
14. Muthen, B. O., & Curran, P. J. (in press). General growth modeling in experimental designs: A Latent variable framework for analyses and power estimation. Psychological Methods.
15. National Institute of Mental Health. (1993). The prevention of mental disorders: A national research agenda. Rockville, MD: Author.
16. National Institute of Mental Health. (1995). A Plan for Prevention Research for the National Institute of Mental Health: A Report to the National Advisory Mental Health Council Rockville, MD: Author.
17. Pillow, D. R., Sandier, I. N., Braver, S. L., Wolchik, S. A., & Gersten, J. C (1991). Theory based screening for prevention: Focusing on mediating processes in children of divorce. American Journal of Community Psychology, 19, 809-836.
18. Vinokur, A. D., Price, R. H., Caplan, R. D., van Ryn, M., & Curran, J. (1995). The Jobs I preventive intervention for unemployed individuals: Short- and long-term effects on reemployaient and mental health. In L. R. Murphy, J. J. Hurrell, Jr., S. L. Sauter, & G. P. Keita (Eds.), Job Stress Interventions (pp. 125-138). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.