@article{ref1,
title="Impact of brief intervention services on drug-using truant youths' self-reported delinquency and arrest charges: a longitudinal study",
journal="Journal of child and adolescent substance abuse",
year="2016",
author="Dembo, Richard and Schmeidler, James and Wareham, Jennifer and Briones-Robinson, Rhissa and Winters, Ken C. and Ungaro, Rocio",
volume="25",
number="5",
pages="458-479",
abstract="The issue of delinquency among truant youths is insufficiently documented in the literature. There is a need to elucidate this issue, and assess the efficacy of interventions to reduce this problem behavior. The present National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)-funded study addressed this gap by examining the impact of a Brief Intervention (BI), originally designed to address youth substance use, on their delinquent behavior over an 18-month follow-up period (for self-reported delinquency) and a 24-month follow-up period (for official record delinquency). A number of significant BI intervention effects with sizable effect sizes were found, as well as a number of marginally significant BI effects. In particular, significant reductions in arrest charges at 24-month follow-up for youths receiving BI services compared to controls were among the key findings of this study. Service delivery implications and directions for future analyses are discussed.<p />",
language="en",
issn="1067-828X",
doi="10.1080/1067828X.2015.1103344",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1067828X.2015.1103344"
}