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      Longitudinal Impact of the Project PATHS on Adolescent Risk Behavior: What Happened after Five Years?

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          The present study investigated the longitudinal impact of the Project PATHS, a large-scale curriculum-based positive youth development program in Hong Kong, on the development of adolescents' risk behavior over a period of five years. Using a longitudinal randomized controlled design, eight waves of data were collected from 19 experimental schools in which students participated in the Project PATHS ( N = 2,850 at Wave 8) and 24 control schools without joining the Project PATHS ( N = 3,640 at Wave 8). At each wave, students responded to measures assessing their current risk behaviors, including delinquency, use of different types of drug, and their intentions of participating in risk behaviors in the future. Results demonstrated that adolescents receiving the program exhibited significantly slower increases in delinquent behaviors and substance use as compared to the control participants. During two years after the completion of the program, differences in youth risk behaviors in the two groups still existed. These results suggest that the Project PATHS has long-term effect in preventing adolescent problem behavior through promoting positive youth development.

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                Journal
                ScientificWorldJournal
                ScientificWorldJournal
                TSWJ
                The Scientific World Journal
                The Scientific World Journal
                1537-744X
                2012
                29 January 2012
                : 2012
                : 316029
                Affiliations
                1Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hunghom, Hong Kong
                2Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
                3Department of Social Work, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
                4Kiang Wu Nursing College of Macau, Macau, China
                5Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Kentucky Children's Hospital, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY 40506, USA
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                Academic Editor: Joav Merrick

                Article
                10.1100/2012/316029
                3353296
                22649287
                a4e6e601-d14c-4a22-8c17-1434e7fdaad2
                Copyright © 2012 D. T. L. Shek and L. Yu.

                This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 15 August 2011
                : 11 September 2011
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