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ERIC Number: EJ826351
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009-Feb
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1090-1981
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Sustaining a School-Based Prevention Program: Results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project
Fagen, Michael C.; Flay, Brian R.
Health Education & Behavior, v36 n1 p9-23 Feb 2009
Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors among a cohort of 5th-grade African American children followed through 10th grade. Sustainability project health educators trained parent educators to deliver the Aban Aya prevention curriculum in five schools, and project researchers studied the resultant curricular implementation and relations between the research and school-based teams. Study results showed uneven implementation across the five schools that we largely attributed to parent educator preparation and parent educator-health educator relations. These and related results are discussed to answer the study's primary research question: How viable was the sustainability project's parent-centered approach to sustaining a school-based prevention program? (Contains 2 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Grade 10; Grade 5; Grade 6; Grade 7; Grade 8; Grade 9
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Language: English
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