Supplemental issue on does early intervention prevent health-risking sexual behaviors related to HIV/AIDS: commentary on effects.

摘要

This Supplemental Issue of Prevention Science investigates the potential effects of early prevention intervention on health-risking sexual risk behaviors (HSRB) in adolescence and adulthood. These interventions were designed to address risk and protective factors associated with the development of substance use and/or psychiatric disorders and were administered in childhood or early adolescence, in school and/or family settings. Early prevention intervention previously has been associated with diminished prevalence for substance use, psychiatric disorder, and other problem behaviors (e.g., smoking, criminal involvement) by adolescence or adulthood (O'Connell et al. 2009).