TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - Violence Prevention Among African American Adolescent Males
JO  - American journal of health behavior
A1  - Ngwe, Job E.
A1  - Liu, Li C.
A1  - Flay, Brian R.
A1  - Segawa, Eisuke
SP  - S24
EP  - S37
VL  - 28
IS  - Suppl 1
N2  - OBJECTIVE: To test psychosocial mediators of the effects of an intervention in reducing the rate of growth of violence among adolescents. METHOD: Five hundred and seventy-one African American adolescent males participated in this randomized trial. Multilevel modeling techniques were used to ascertain both intervention and mediated effects. RESULTS: Intervention significantly reduced rate of growth of violence and 5 social and psychological factors in the treatment group relative to the control group. Four of these social and psychological factors were found to be complete mediators between the intervention and its preventive effects. CONCLUSION: Changing psychological mediating variables is central to reducing youth violence. (Abstract Adapted from Source: American Journal of Health Behavior, 2004. Copyright © 2004 by the American Academy of Health Behavior)  For more information on the Aban Aya Youth Project, see VioPro record number 896.  Violence Prevention Violence Intervention Intervention Program Prevention Program African American Juvenile African American Offender African American Violence African American Male Male Offender Male Violence Juvenile Male Juvenile Offender Juvenile Violence Program Effectiveness Program Evaluation 06-04<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 1087-3244
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -