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Evaluating the Effects of the Teen Outreach Program on Positive Youth Development Constructs
Introduction: The Teen Outreach Program (TOP) is a positive youth development (PYD) program that seeks to reduce the risk of adolescent pregnancy, school dropout, and course failure. As TOP has not been evaluated for its impact on PYD constructs, our purpose was to assess this potential.
Methods: A pair-matched, cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate TOP among youth in 26 high schools was conducted in 2013-2014. Youth (N=3740) were surveyed at baseline and immediately following program completion. A linear mixed effects model compared scores of the Lernerâs Five Cs measure of PYD between treatment and control youth and by race/ethnicity and gender subgroups.
Results: After a multiple comparison adjustment, no statistically significant results were observed.
Conclusions: Despite the lack of statistically significant findings, the current study can provide insight for future evaluations of TOP regarding adaptation and evaluation of core components, implementation, PYD impacts, and sexual and reproductive health outcomes
NĂvel de atividade fĂsica e hĂĄbitos alimentares de universitĂĄrios do 3Âș ao 5Âș semestres da ĂĄrea da saĂșde
Of âMissing Middleâ and Size-based Regulaton: A New Fronter in the Labour Market Flexibility
Preponderance of small (that is, less than 10 workers) sized manufacturing establishments in India is said to re&ect their inability to growth in size on account of prohibitive cost of regulatory compliance (and the associated corruption). Similarly, the âUâ shaped (or bi-modal) distribution of manufacturing employment by size of establishment or enterprise â popularly termed the âmissing middleâ â is argued to be the outcome of the rigid labour laws, adversely a/ecting productivity growth. Do the foregoing propositions represent hard facts, or artefacts of mis-measurement and misinterpretation of the evidence? The paper contends that it is the latter: the observed employment distribution by size is more likely to re&ect the widespread and growing evasion of o3cial registration, and under-reporting or mis-representation in the administrative data. Further, the wide schism observed between the organised (formal) and unorganised (informal) labour markets represents persistence of surplus labour, and organisational dualism â a la Hella Myint - on account of technology and organisation of production in the modern sector; and perhaps not on account of policy induced rigidities in the labour market, as many contend
Evaluating Race/Ethnicity in Moderating Baseline Cardiometabolic Risk and Body Composition Changes in North Carolina First-Year College Women
Evaluation of a theory-driven e-learning intervention for future oral healthcare providers on secondary prevention of disordered eating behaviors
Eating disorders - knowledge, attitudes, management and clinical experience of Norwegian dentists
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