PROSPER Long-Term Follow-Up
PROSPER — PROmoting School Community-University Partnerships to Enhance Resilience
The project involves examining long-term effects of an innovative partnership-based intervention delivery model called PROSPER (PROmoting School/community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience). Primary effects examined will be reductions in emerging adult substance misuse, antisocial behaviors and health-risking sexual behaviors, along with associated healthy adult functioning, among project participants who received evidence-based interventions (EBIs) during middle school.
This work extends a randomized control study of the PROSPER model, involving two sequential cohorts of youth and families from an understudied rural population. Fourteen rural school districts in IA and PA (N = 28), ranging in size from approximately 1,300 to 5,200 students, were selected and randomly assigned to either the PROSPER partnership condition or to a usual programming control condition. Local teams in the PROSPER partnership sites selected and implemented family-focused and school-based EBIs for middle school students. The evaluation of intervention outcomes began with approximately 12,000 students (90% of those eligible) in the two cohorts who participated in a 6th grade pretest assessment; follow-up assessments with the students in these cohorts were conducted each spring, through the 12th grade. Following 12th grade, 2,000 randomly selected students from that sample were recruited for continued follow-up assessments. The proposed study will extend those follow-ups to ages 22 and 24, in order to examine the intervention effects through emerging adulthood.
Aims of the proposed study are to: (1) evaluate long-term outcomes of the PROSPER partnership-supported middle-school EBIs; and (2) evaluate mediators and moderators of long-term EBI effects, informed by an extension of the outcome model specified in the original study. Positive results from the first two grant periods have established PROSPER effectiveness, with evidence of: effective functioning of community teams; strong participation in EBIs; long-term, high quality EBI implementation; sustainability of teams and EBIs; increases in community social capital; and economic analyses indicating PROSPER efficiency. Most importantly, results show strong EBI outcomes through middle and high school, with positive effects on: young adolescent competencies (e.g., peer refusal skills); parenting effectiveness and family functioning; reductions in adolescent conduct problems; and reduced misuse of a wide range of substances, including prescription drugs, through the end of high school. These results suggest a unique opportunity for demonstrating early preventive intervention impacts on healthy adult functioning; the prospect of establishing such impacts would constitute a compelling case for national diffusion of the PROSPER model. Literature reviews failed to reveal another study with a comparably large rural sample that allows assessment of intervention effects on problem behaviors, general health, sexual health, and other benefits for participants as they transition into adulthood.
Publications
(2019). Nurturant-involved parenting and adolescent substance use: Examining an internalizing pathway through adolescent social anxiety symptoms and substance refusal efficacy. Development And Psychopathology, 31(1), 247-260.
(2018). Social network implications of normative school transitions in non-urban school districts. Youth And Society, 50(4), 462-484.
(2018). Transactions between substance use intervention, the oxytocin receptor (OXTR) gene, and peer substance use predicting youth alcohol use. Prevention Science, 19, 15-26.
(2018). PROSPER intervention effects on adolescents' alcohol misuse vary by GABRA2. Prevention Science, 19(1), 15-16.
(2018). Exit, cohesion, and consensus: Social psychological moderators of consensus among adolescent peer groups. Social Currents, 5(1), 49-66. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2329496517704859
(2018). Examining the highs and lows of the collaborative relationship between technical assistance providers and prevention implementers. Prevention Science, 19(2), 250-259. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s11121-017-0812-2
(2018). The role of family for youth friendships: Examining a social anxiety mechanism. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 47(2), 306-320. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10964-017-0738-9
(2018). The role of family for youth friendships: Examining a social anxiety mechanism. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 47(2), 306-320. Retrieved from http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10964-017-0738-9
(2018). Associations between alcohol dehydrogenase genes and alcohol use across early and middle adolescence: Moderation × Preventive interventionAbstract. Development And Psychopathology, 30(01), 297-313. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0954579417000633/type/journal_article
(2018). Falling behind: Lingering costs of the high school transition for youth friendships and grades. Sociology Of Education, 91(2), 159-182. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/001872675400700202
(2018). Lability in the parent’s hostility and warmth toward their adolescent: Linkages to youth delinquency and substance use.. Developmental Psychology, 54(2), 348-361.
(2018). Sources of bias in Gorman critique of bias: again a need for more reasonable, valid conclusions with true dialogue. Psychological Medicine, 48(04), 697-700. Retrieved from https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0033291717002951/type/journal_article
(2018). A developmental perspective on young adult romantic relationships: Examining family and individual factors in adolescence. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 47(7), 1499-1516. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-018-0815-8
(2018). Different kinds of lonely: Dimensions of isolation and substance use in adolescence. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 47(8), 1755-1770. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10964-018-0860-3
(2018). Interparental conflict and long-term adolescent substance use trajectories: The role of adolescent threat appraisals. Journal Of Family Psychology, 32(2), 175-185. Retrieved from https://content.apa.org/record/2018-14802-002
(2018). Parental perceived control and social support: Linkages to change in parenting behaviors during early adolescence. Family Process, 57(2), 432-447. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/famp.12283
(2018). Peer Influence, Friend Selection, and Gender: How Network Processes Shape Adolescent Smoking, Drinking, And Delinquency. Social Networks, 55, 86-96. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S037887331730494X
(2018). Stepfamily relationship quality and children's internalizing and externalizing problems. Family Process, 57(2), 477-495. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/famp.12284
(2018). The trajectory of coparenting relationship quality across early adolescence: Family, community, and parent gender influences. Journal Of Family Psychology, 32(5), 599-609. Retrieved from https://content.apa.org/record/2018-25392-001
(2017). Risk factors for substance use and adolescents’ symptoms of depression. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 60(1), 50-56.
(2017). Network sampling coverage II: The effect of non-random missing data on network measurement. Social Networks, 48, 78-99.
(2017). PROSPER delivery of universal preventive interventions with young adolescents: Long-term effects on emerging adult substance misuse and associated risk behaviors. Psychological Medicine, 47(13), 2246-2259.
(2017). Extending previous cG×I findings on 5-HTTLPR's moderation of intervention effects on adolescent substance misuse initiation. Child Development, 88(6), 2001-2012. Retrieved from http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/cdev.12666
(2017). New students’ peer integration and exposure to deviant peers: Spurious effects of school moves?. The Journal Of Early Adolescence, 27(9), 1254-1279. Retrieved from http://jea.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0272431616659563
(2017). Early sexual initiation and mental health: A fleeting association or enduring change?. Journal Of Research On Adolescence, 27(3), 611-627.
(2017). Dynamic associations of network isolation and smoking behavior. Network Science, 5(3 (Network and Health), 257-277.
(2017). The unique and interactive effects of parent and school bonds on adolescent delinquency. Journal Of Applied Developmental Psychology, 53, 54-63. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193397317300369?via%3Dihub
(2017). The article establishing a common language: The meaning of research-based and evidence-based programming (in the Human Sciences) . The Journal For Extension Professionals (Joe), 55(6). Retrieved from https://www.joe.org/joe/2017december/a2.php
(2016). The partnership-based PROSPER delivery system and implementation of the Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14. In Family-Centered Prevention Programs for Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research, and Large-Scale Dissemination (pp. 160-185). NY: Psychology Press.
(2016). The power of a collaborative relationship between technical assistance providers and community prevention teams: A correlational and longitudinal study. Evaluation And Program Planning, 54, 19-29.
(2016). An adolescent substance prevention model blocks the effect of CHRNA5 genotype on smoking during high school. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 18(2), 212-220.
(2016). Knowledge lability: Within-person changes in parental knowledge and their associations with adolescent problem behavior. Prevention Science, 17(2), 274-283.
(2016). Internalizing symptoms, peer substance use, and substance use initiation. Journal Of Research On Adolescence, 26(4), 645-657.
(2016). Friends first? The peer network origins of adolescent dating. Journal Of Research On Adolescence, 26(2), 257-269.
(2016). Examining reciprocal influences among family climate, school attachment, and academic self-regulation: Implications for school success. Journal Of Family Psychology, 30(4), 442-452.
(2016). Thriving in school: The role of sixth grade adolescent-parent-school relationships in predicting eighth-grade academic outcomes. Youth & Society, 48(6), 739-762.
(2016). Universal prevention exposure as a moderator of the community context: Findings from the PROSPER project. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 57(1-2), 8-19.
(2016). Pathways to sustainability: 8-year follow-up from the PROSPER project. The Journal Of Primary Prevention, 37(3), 263-286.
(2016). Peer beliefs and smoking in adolescence: A longitudinal social network analysis. The American Journal Of Drug And Alcohol Abuse, 42(2), 222-230.
(2016). When onset meets desistance: Cognitive transformation and adolescent marijuana experimentation. Journal Of Developmental And Life-Course Criminology, 2(2), 135-161.
(2016). The double standard at sexual debut: Gender, sexual behavior and adolescent peer acceptance. Sex Roles, 75(7-8), 377-392.
(2016). Trajectories of adolescent hostile-aggressive behavior and family climate: Longitudinal implications for young adult romantic relationship competence. Developmental Psychology, 52(7), 1139-1150.
(2015). Research on the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Youth 10-14: Long-term effects, mechanisms, translation to public health, PROSPER partnership scale up. In Handbook of Adolescent Drug Use Prevention: Research, Intervention Strategies, and Practice (pp. 267-292). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
(2015). PROSPER partnership delivery system: Effects on adolescent conduct problem behavior outcomes through 6.5 years past baseline. Journal Of Adolescence, 45, 44-55.
(2015). A multi-level examination of how the organizational context relates to readiness to implement prevention and evidence-based programming in community settings. Evaluation And Program Planning, 48, 63-74.
(2015). Factors that predict financial sustainability of community coalitions: Five years of findings from the PROSPER partnership project. Prevention Science, 16(1), 158-167.
(2015). Developmental differences in early adolescent aggression: A gene × environment × intervention analysis. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 44(3), 581-597.
(2015). Interparental relationship sensitivity leads to adolescent internalizing problems: Different genotypes, different pathways. Journal Of Marriage And Family, 77(2), 329-343.
(2015). Cascading effects of interparental conflict in adolescence: Linking threat appraisals, self-efficacy, and adjustment. Development And Psychopathology, 27(Special Issue 01), 239-252.
(2015). The conditioning of intervention effects on early adolescent alcohol use by maternal involvement and dopamine receptor D4 (DRD4) and serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region (5-HTTLPR) genetic variants. Development And Psychopathology, 27(Special Issue 01), 51-67.
(2015). Understanding the link between social organization and crime in rural communities. Journal Of Rural And Community Development, 10(1), 109-127. Retrieved from http://journals.brandonu.ca/jrcd/article/view/980/221
(2015). Diffusion of intervention effects: The impact of a family-based substance use prevention program on friends of participants. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 57(4), 433-440.
(2015). Social networks and the diffusion of adolescent problem behavior: Reliable estimates of selection and influence from sixth through ninth grades. Prevention Science, 16(6), 832-843.
(2015). Adolescent peer networks and the potential for the diffusion of intervention effects. Prevention Science, 16(1), 133-144.
(2015). Can mindful parenting be observed? Relations between observational ratings of mother-youth interactions and mothers' self-report of mindful parenting. Journal Of Family Psychology, 29(2), 276-282.
(2015). Differential susceptibility: The genetic moderation of peer pressure on alcohol use. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 44(10), 1841-1853. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10964-015-0344-7.pdf
(2014). The impact of a prevention delivery system on perceived social capital: The PROSPER project. Prevention Science, 15(2), 125-137.
(2014). Can we build an efficient response to the prescription drug abuse epidemic? Assessing the cost effectiveness of universal prevention in the PROSPER trial. Preventive Medicine, 62, 71-77.
(2014). Knowledge, attitudes, and commitment concerning evidence-based prevention programs: Differences between family and consumer sciences and 4-H youth development educators. Journal Of Extension, 52(3). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2014june/a6.php
(2014). Interparental boundary problems, parent-adolescent hostility, and adolescent-parent hostility: A family process model for adolescent aggression problems. Couple And Family Psychology: Research And Practice, 3(3), 141-155.
(2014). Investigating the potential causal relationship between parental knowledge and youth risky behavior: A propensity score analysis. Prevention Science, 15(6), 869-878.
(2014). Youths' substance use and changes in parental knowledge-related behaviors during middle school: A person-oriented approach. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 43(5), 729-744.
(2014). Unpacking the effect of parental monitoring on early adolescent problem behavior: Mediation by parental knowledge and moderation by parent-youth warmth. Journal Of Family Issues, 35(13), 1800-1823.
(2014). Evaluating the impact of implementation factors on family-based prevention programming: Methods for strengthening causal inference. Prevention Science, 15(2), 246-255.
(2014). Emergence of mixed-sex friendship groups during adolescence: Developmental associations with substance use and delinquency. Developmental Psychology, 50(11), 2449-2461.
(2014). Friends as a bridge to parental influence: Implications for adolescent alcohol use. Social Forces, 92(3), 1061-1085.
(2014). Delinquency and peer acceptance in adolescence: A within-person test of Moffitt's hypotheses. Developmental Psychology, 50(11), 2437-2448.
(2014). Revisiting “What they think”: Adolescent drinking and the importance of peer beliefs. Criminology, 52(3), 488-513.
(2013). Dating and substance use in adolescent peer networks: A replication and extension. Addiction, 108(3), 638-647.
(2013). PROSPER community-university partnership delivery system effects on substance misuse through 6½ years past baseline from a cluster randomized controlled intervention trial. Preventive Medicine, 56(3-4), 190-196.
(2013). Parental knowledge and youth risky behavior: A person oriented approach. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 42(11), 1732-1744.
(2013). Longitudinal effects of universal preventive intervention on prescription drug misuse: Three randomized controlled trials with late adolescents and young adults. American Journal Of Public Health, 103(4), 665-672.
(2013). Addressing core challenges for the next generation of type 2 translation research and systems: The translation science to population impact (TSci Impact) framework. Prevention Science, 14(4), 319-351.
(2013). Effects of PROSPER on the influence potential of prosocial versus antisocial youth in adolescent friendship networks. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 53(2), 174-179.
(2013). Parenting and early adolescent internalizing: The importance of teasing apart anxiety and depressive symptoms. Journal Of Early Adolescence, 33(2), 201-226.
(2013). The timing of school transitions and early adolescent problem behavior. Journal Of Early Adolescence, 33(6), 821-844.
(2013). Peers and the emergence of alcohol use: Influence and selection processes in adolescent friendship networks. Journal Of Research On Adolescence, 23(3), 500-512.
(2013). Structural effects of network sampling coverage I: Nodes missing at random. Social Networks, 35(4), 652-668.
(2013). Delinquent-oriented attitudes mediate the relation between parental inconsistent discipline and early adolescent behavior. Journal Of Family Psychology, 27(2), 293-302.
(2012). Do peers' parents matter? A new link between positive parenting and adolescent substance use. Journal Of Studies On Alcohol And Drugs, 73(3), 423-433.
(2012). The effect of the PROSPER partnership model on cultivating local stakeholder knowledge of evidence-based programs: A five-year longitudinal study of 28 communities. Prevention Science, 13(1), 96-105.
(2012). Predicting alcohol use across adolescence: Relative strength of individual, family, peer, and contextual risk and protective factors. Psychology Of Addictive Behaviors, 26(4), 703-713.
(2012). A multidomain approach to understanding risk for underage drinking: Converging evidence from 5 data sets. American Journal Of Public Health, 102(11), 2080-2087.
(2012). Hanging out with which friends? Friendship-level predictors of unstructured and unsupervised socializing in adolescence. Journal Of Research On Adolescence, 22(4), 646-661.
(2012). Resource consumption of a diffusion model for prevention programs: The PROSPER delivery system. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 50(3), 256-263.
(2012). Substance misuse prevention and economic analysis: Challenges and opportunities regarding international utility. Substance Use And Misuse, 47(8/9), 877-888.
(2012). The community epidemiology of underage drinking: Variation across communities in relations of risk to alcohol use. Prevention Science, 13(6), 551-561.
(2011). From the macro to the micro: A geographic examination of the community context and early adolescent problem behaviors. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 48(3-4), 352-364.
(2011). Impact challenges in community science-with-practice: Lessons from PROSPER on transformative practitioner-scientist partnerships and prevention infrastructure development. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 48(1-2), 106-119.
(2011). Strengthening prevention program theories and evaluations: Contributions from social network analysis. Prevention Science, 12(4), 349-360.
(2011). A dyadic approach to understanding the relationship of maternal knowledge of youths' activities to youths' problem behavior among rural adolescents. Journal Of Youth And Adolescence, 40(9), 1178-91.
(2011). Factors Influencing the development of school bonding among middle school students. Journal Of Early Adolescence, 31(3), 463-487.
(2011). Preventing substance misuse through community-university partnerships: Randomized controlled trial outcomes 4½ years past baseline. American Journal Of Preventive Medicine, 40(4), 440-447.
(2011). Team factors that predict to sustainability indicators for community-based prevention teams. Evaluation And Program Planning, 34(3), 283-291.
(2011). Translating family-focused prevention science into public health impact: Illustrations from partnership-based research. Alcohol Research And Health, 34(2), 188-203. Retrieved from http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/arh342/188-203.htm
(2011). Six-year sustainability of evidence-based intervention implementation quality by community-university partnerships: The PROSPER study. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 48(3-4), 412-425.
(2010). The Community Substance Use Environment: The Development and Predictive Ability of a Multi-method and Multiple-reporter Measure. Journal Of Community And Applied Social Psychology, 20(1), 57-71.
(2010). Mining the network: Peers and adolescent health. Journal Of Adolescent Health, 47(4), 324-326.
(2009). Long-term protective factor outcomes of evidence-based interventions implemented by community teams through a community-university partnership. Journal Of Primary Prevention, 30(5), 513-530.
(2009). The importance of the community context in the epidemiology of early adolescent substance use and delinquency in a rural sample. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 44(3-4), 287-301.
(2008). Translating family-focused prevention science into effective practice: Toward a translational impact paradigm. Current Directions In Psychological Science, 17(6), 415-421.
(2008). Personality and community prevention teams: Dimensions of team leader and member personality predicting team functioning. Evaluation And Program Planning, 31(4), 403-409.
(2008). Improving the reputation of Cooperative Extension as a source of prevention education for youth and families: The effects of the PROSPER model. Journal Of Extension, 46(4). Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2008february/a6.shtml
(2007). Community readiness as a multidimensional construct. Journal Of Community Psychology, 35(3), 347-365.
(2007). Community and team member factors that influence the early phase functioning of community prevention teams: The PROSPER project. Journal Of Primary Prevention, 28(6), 485-504.
(2007). Opportunities to meet challenges in rural prevention research: Findings from an evolving community-university partnership model. Journal Of Rural Health, 23(Supplement s1), 42-54.
(2007). Toward dissemination of evidence-based family interventions: Maintenance of community-based partnership recruitment results and associated factors. Journal Of Family Psychology, 21(2), 137-146.
(2007). Community and team member factors that influence the operations phase of local prevention teams: The PROSPER project. Prevention Science, 8(3), 214-226.
(2007). PROSPER study of evidence-based intervention implementation quality by community-university partnerships. Journal Of Community Psychology, 35(8), 981-999.
(2007). Substance-use outcomes at 18 months past baseline: The PROSPER community-university partnership trial. American Journal Of Preventive Medicine, 32(5), 395-402.
(2006). Fostering Youth Engagement on Community Teams. Journal Of Youth Development: Bridging Research And Practice, 1(1), 601PA003. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3297413/
(2006). Extension educators' perceptions of community readiness, knowledge of prevention science, and experience with collaboration. Journal Of Family And Consumer Science, 98(4), 20-26. Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798072/
(2006). Rural youth involvement in the implementation of an evidence-based substance use preventive intervention. Rural Mental Health, 31(2), 9-18.
(2005). Toward a comprehensive strategy for effective practitioner-scientist partnerships and larger-scale community health and well-being. American Journal Of Community Psychology, 35(3/4), 107-126.
(2004). Perceptions of the Cooperative Extension Service: A community resource for youth and family programs. Journal Of Extension, 42(5), 1-11. Retrieved from http://www.joe.org/joe/2004october/a5.php
(2004). PROSPER community-university partnership model for public education systems: Capacity-building for evidence-based, competence-building prevention. Prevention Science, 5(1), 31-39.
(2004). Self-fulfilling prophecies: The synergistic accumulative effect of parents' beliefs on children's drinking behavior. Psychological Science, 15(12), 837-845.
(2004). Rural community partnership recruitment for an evidence-based family-focused prevention program: The PROSPER project. Rural Mental Health, 29(2), 23-28.