How Has the Economic Downturn Affected Communities and Implementation of Science-Based Prevention in the Randomized Trial of Communities That Care?
This study examined implications of the economic downturn that began in December 2007 for the Community Youth Development Study (CYDS), a longitudinal randomized controlled trial of the Communities That Care (CTC) prevention system. The downturn had the potential to affect the internal validity of t...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Community Psychology Vol. 51; no. 3/4; pp. 370 - 385 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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