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The effects of Positive Youth Development interventions on substance use, violence and inequalities: systematic review of theories of change, processes and outcomes |
Bonell C, Dickson K, Hinds K, Melendez-Torres GJ, Stansfield C, Fletcher A, Thomas J, Lester K, Oliver E, Murphy S, Campbell R |
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Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Bonell C, Dickson K, Hinds K, Melendez-Torres GJ, Stansfield C, Fletcher A, Thomas J, Lester K, Oliver E, Murphy S, Campbell R. The effects of Positive Youth Development interventions on substance use, violence and inequalities: systematic review of theories of change, processes and outcomes. Public Health Research 2016; 4(5) Authors' objectives Positive Youth Development (PYD) delivered outside school aims to enable young people to develop positive assets such as relationships and confidence, rather than to merely address risk. Existing reviews of PYD effects on substance use or violence are old and unsystematic.
The objective was to systematically review evidence to answer the following questions: what theories of change inform PYD interventions addressing substance use and violence? What characteristics of participants and contexts are identified as barriers to and facilitators of implementation and receipt in process evaluations of PYD? What is the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of PYD in reducing substance use and violence? What characteristics of participants and contexts appear to moderate, or are necessary and sufficient for, PYD effectiveness? Authors' conclusions How PYD might promote health is currently undertheorised. Implementation can be challenging. We found little evidence that current PYD interventions delivered outside school reduce substance use or violence. However, these may not constitute a test of the effectiveness of the PYD model, as some included interventions that, although meeting our inclusion criteria, were not exemplars of PYD. Indexing Status Subject indexing assigned by CRD MeSH Adolescent; Humans; Socioeconomic Factors; Substance-Related Disorders; Violence Country of organisation England English summary An English language summary is available. Address for correspondence PHR Programme, National Institute for Health Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, University of Southampton, Alpha House, Enterprise Road, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK Tel +44 (0)23 8059 9697
Email: info@phr.ac.uk AccessionNumber 32016000690 Date abstract record published 26/05/2016 |
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