Reducing Social Stress in Urban Adolescents with Peer Network Counseling.

Increased social stress in the context of peer interactions is associated with multiple negative health outcomes, including substance use. Addressing social stress could provide protective effects for adolescents who are particularly vulnerable to peer-based issues such as loneliness and perceived i...

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Publicado en:Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 25; no. 12; pp. 3488 - 3497
Autores principales: Mason, Michael, Zaharakis, Nikola, Sabo, Roy
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Publicado: Springer Nature Dec2016
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          Mason, Michael
          Zaharakis, Nikola
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          Department of Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Commonwealth Institute for Child & Family Studies , Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond 23298-0489 USA
          Department of Biostatistics , Virginia Commonwealth University , Richmond USA
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        Southern States
        Substance abuse prevention
        Social isolation
        Loneliness
        Alcoholism
        Metropolitan areas
        Psychological stress
        Teenagers' conduct of life
        Affinity groups
        Academic medical centers
        Cannabis (Genus)
        Chi-squared test
        Health outcome assessment
        Peer counseling
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        Research funding
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
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        Prevention
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          Substance abuse prevention
          Social isolation
          Loneliness
          Alcoholism
          Metropolitan areas
          Psychological stress
          Teenagers' conduct of life
          Affinity groups
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          Academic medical centers
          Cannabis (Genus)
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        Adolescents
        Brief treatment
        Heavy alcohol use
        Peer network counseling
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        Heavy alcohol use
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      ab: Increased social stress in the context of peer interactions is associated with multiple negative health outcomes, including substance use. Addressing social stress could provide protective effects for adolescents who are particularly vulnerable to peer-based issues such as loneliness and perceived isolation. Toward this end, we examined the efficacy of a 20-min substance use intervention named peer network counseling to reduce social stress with 119 urban adolescents. Adolescents presenting at primary care clinics were randomized into treatment or control conditions and followed for 6 months. Utilizing a repeated measures general linear model, we examined the effects of peer network counseling while controlling for race, gender, age, depression symptoms, and substance use (alcohol, marijuana). At 6 months the peer network counseling condition decreased social stress compared to controls ( p < 0.05). A linear mixed-effects moderation model revealed that peer network counseling temporarily moderated the effect of alcohol use, but not for marijuana or heavy alcohol use. Peer network counseling seems to reduce social stress, which suppresses alcohol use among peer network counseling participants in the short term. These promising findings appear to support the efficacy of peer network counseling in reducing social stress, which can moderate alcohol use among urban adolescents.
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