Journal of prevention (2022)最新文献

{"title":"How is the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) Implemented in Practice and What Lessons Have We Learnt so far? Introduction to the Special Issue.","authors":"Angelina Brotherhood, Larissa de Almeida Nobre-Sandoval","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00877-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00877-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145180678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Patterns of Return to Homelessness Among Military Veterans in Permanent Housing: Implications for Prevention.","authors":"Thomas Byrne, Jack Tsai","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00873-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00873-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There is growing interest in assisting individuals who return to homelessness after obtaining permanent housing. However, little evidence exists on those who make multiple exits to permanent housing and subsequently return to homelessness over time. This study estimated the rates of multiple returns to homelessness among Veterans who accessed permanent housing and identified Veteran characteristics associated with these returns. The study used several Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) administrative data sources to calculate rates of multiple returns to homelessness within 12- and 24-months among Veterans who exited a VA homeless assistance program to a permanent housing destination between January 2018 and April 2021. Binary logistic regression models assessed the association between Veteran characteristics and multiple returns. Roughly 0.4% and 2.2% of Veterans experienced multiple returns to homelessness within 12- and 24-months, respectively. Diagnoses of alcohol use disorder, drug use disorder and psychoses were the most prominent predictors of higher odds of multiple returns. Although rare, multiple returns to homelessness highlight the need for targeted supports to help prevent recurrent homelessness and promote long-term housing stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Components of Family-Focused Interventions that Have Common Impacts Across Parental Domestic Violence and Abuse, Mental Ill-Health, and Substance Misuse: An Intervention Components Analysis.","authors":"Kate Allen, Tamanna Malhotra, Amy Bond, Alice Garrood, G J Melendez-Torres, Tamsin Ford, Chris Bonell, Vashti Berry","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00868-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00868-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Support for families experiencing domestic violence and abuse (DVA), mental ill-health (MH) and substance misuse (SU) is often delivered in siloes, despite the frequent co-occurrence of these public health issues. Little evidence-based guidance exists on which interventions best support families experiencing a combination of these problems. Identifying intervention components with common impacts across parental DVA, MH and SU could inform policy and practice. We conducted an Intervention Components Analysis (ICA) to identify intervention components that have common impacts across parental DVA, MH and SU. We searched ten databases for randomised controlled trials of family-focused interventions targeting, and measuring an impact on, one or more of these issues. We developed an initial coding framework using open coding to guide the coding of subsequent studies. Descriptive analyses identified common components across target outcomes (DVA/MH/SU) and robust variance meta-regressions explored the relationship between intervention components and treatment effects. A Lived Experience Advisory Group informed our presentation and interpretation of the results. We identified 164 interventions: 40 focused on a combination of DVA, MH and SU and 124 addressed one issue alone. None of the 20 components identified were unique to any specific outcome and no single component was associated with meaningful improvement in outcomes. Interventions aiming to provide integrated support across outcomes were less successful at improving MH and SU outcomes than those targeting single issues. We found no evidence of commonly effective intervention components. Better alignment between components and underlying processes driving DVA/MH/SU, and alternative intervention designs, are needed.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting Evidence-Based Prevention Via Implementing European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) in Georgia.","authors":"Jana D Javakhishvili, Mariam Razmadze","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00871-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00871-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) was introduced in Georgia to ensure the quality of the National Drug Prevention Strategy implementation. This paper provides a practitioner's narrative of the experiences and lessons learned during the implementation of EUPC in Georgia, as part of a Special Issue on EUPC implementation experiences. The narrative is grounded in the authors' direct involvement in the implementation of the EUPC, including the translation and cultural adaptation of the curriculum, the capacity building of national trainers, and the delivery and evaluation of EUPC training to 146 local stakeholders. Drawing on implementation experiences, training participant feedback, and implementers' observations, the account highlights key lessons learned. The translation and cultural adaptations of the EUPC manual along with the development of national training capacity laid a strong foundation for piloting the first EUPC training for decision-makers, opinion leaders and policymakers (DOPs) in Georgia. As a result of the training, participants demonstrated an increased understanding of evidence-based prevention principles. However, challenges emerged, including the culture-specific pace of content comprehension and the participants' limited prior exposure to evidence-based prevention. Key lessons include the necessity to tailor training complexity to the needs of different target groups while putting in place the mechanisms assuring fidelity, quality and the necessity of creating a sustainable infrastructure for EUPC implementation.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the Push-Up Challenge: Impacts on Mental Health, Help-Seeking and Exercise Behaviours in Australia.","authors":"Nina Logan, Amy Morgan, Anna Ross, Ellie Tsiamis, Nicola Reavley","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00872-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00872-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Push-Up Challenge is an Australian health promotion event combining mental health awareness with an exercise goal. This study aimed to evaluate its impact on participants' resilience, wellbeing and mental health, physical activity, social connectedness, and mental health literacy. Using a pre-post design, we analysed survey data across three timepoints: pre-event (N = 29,069), two weeks post-event (N = 9,970), and three months post-event (N = 4,346). Outcomes included resilience, depression and anxiety symptoms, wellbeing, help-seeking behaviours, self-care activities, and physical activity levels. Survey respondents were mostly male (64.8%) with a mean age of 35.68 years (SD = 12.8). Mixed-effects models were used to assess change over time, adjusting for factors associated with missingness. At three-month follow-up, results showed very small significant reductions in depression (d = -0.09, p < 0.001) and anxiety symptoms (d = -0.09, p < 0.001), and small improvements in positive wellbeing (d = 0.15, p < 0.001). There were no significant changes in resilience, physical activity, social connection, or odds of experiencing a mental health problem. Participants were more likely to seek help for mental health problems (OR = 2.05 [1.31, 3.19]) and adopt self-care strategies (OR = 3.79 [2.64, 5.45]). Physical activity levels increased significantly post-event (d = 0.10, p < 0.001) but were not maintained at follow-up. While improvements in mental health symptoms were small, this is consistent with similar population-level mental health promotion interventions. Findings suggest that The Push-Up Challenge shows promise as a multifaceted intervention combining exercise-based mental health promotion with mental health awareness and literacy components.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144981175","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Implementation of the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) in Latvia.","authors":"Agnese Zīle, Kristīne Ozoliņa, Kate Vulāne, Agnese Freimane","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00870-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00870-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This practitioner narrative aims to describe the implementation of the European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) in Latvia, highlighting the structure, key achievements, challenges, and lessons learnt to inform future implementation efforts. Until 2025, Latvia has translated the EUPC handbook into the national language, ensured EUPC basic trainings since 2021 and the academic course since 2023, and, with the support of the European Drugs Agency (EUDA, formerly known as the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, EMCDDA), trained five national EUPC trainers. Currently, the EUPC training is offered at most twice a year-once for national decision-makers, opinion leaders, and policymakers (DOPs) and once for university students. Key barriers to the large-scale implementation of the EUPC include limited funding, the additional workload associated with delivering EUPC trainings for national trainers, the absence of a national implementation framework, and the lack of official recognition of EUPC certification. Nevertheless, an analysis of participants' pre-test and post-test responses demonstrates an increase in self-reported knowledge related to EUPC content. Furthermore, elements of the EUPC have been integrated into various methodological and educational materials on substance use prevention in Latvia.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"OveRcoming Adverse ChiLdhood Experiences (ORACLE): A Mixed Methods Intervention Co-design Study to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People Experiencing or at Risk of Adversity.","authors":"Julia R Forman, Ruth McGovern, Sophie G E Kedzior, Harriet Boulding, Simon Barrett, Cassey Muir, Nicholas Kofi Adjei, Yoko V Laurence, Tianne Haggar, Julia Fox-Rushby, David Taylor-Robinson, Eileen Kaner, Ingrid Wolfe","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00866-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10935-025-00866-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Childhood exposures to adversity are common and increase risk for negative health and social outcomes throughout the life course. There is limited evidence regarding interventions to prevent or reduce the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), particularly for families with multiple adversities. Here we present the findings of mixed methods research to co-design a complex intervention to prevent adverse childhood experiences, and their impacts. Using established research methods, and the framework of the Medical Research Council (MRC) complex interventions development guidance, the work was conducted in four stages, shaped by stakeholder engagement and input at every stage. The first stage, Discover, was exploratory and employed evidence synthesis and quantitative (n = 11,564) and qualitative (n = 31) research methods to understand needs, experiences, and evidence gaps. The Define stage developed three intervention principles and identified intervention options, through a series of six co-design workshops with 41 participants and an academic research team workshop. The Develop and Deliver stages were undertaken through a Policy Lab (22 participants), and developed options for intervention design, before converging on a defined intervention that could be delivered and tested. Through this process, we developed a 'village-style' intervention, which functions at three levels: individual service users, operational, and system/strategy. Central to this are link or community health workers who would build relationships with family members, and act as a single point of contact. They should develop an understanding of family needs and the interaction of multiple complex adversities, and advocate for families, facilitating access to services. Crucially, they should use this understanding to work at and feed into operational and strategic levels to reshape services and enhance access for all families at risk of or experiencing adversity. Entry into the intervention through assessments at existing universal touch points, for example at routine perinatal or newborn appointments, should provide a prevention focus and follow the principles of proportionate universalism. Sensitive enquiry regarding financial stress may be a component of the assessment, in response to the findings of this work regarding the contexts created through the interaction of poverty and other adversities. The proposed intervention is designed to improve individual and family outcomes, and generate positive system-level changes. A feasibility study and evaluation will be required in future work, to assess the effects, costs and benefits. The processes and frameworks we developed and used may provide an adaptable template for future intervention co-design work.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The German 'Dunkelfeld' Approach: When the Dark Figure of Sexual Delinquency Against Minors Remains Shady.","authors":"Andrej König","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00852-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00852-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":"463-466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12289709/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144059904","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reduction of High Emotional Eating via Increased Physical Activity: Assessing a Path Informed by Multiple Behavioral Theories Within Community-Based Obesity Interventions.","authors":"James J Annesi, Kent J Adams, Maliheh Bakhshi","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00842-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00842-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotional eating (EE; eating in response to negative emotions) is a considerable problem in adults with obesity. Recent meta-analyses of behavioral treatments for those with elevated body mass index (BMI) have demonstrated inconsistent, but generally minimal, effects for dealing with EE. This might largely be due to inappropriate sampling, cross-sectional research designs, and a lack of understanding of theory-driven psychosocial mechanisms of EE change. This study aimed to inform mental health, medical, and health behavior-change professionals on methods to address EE within obesity treatments. Within the present field-based research, women with high EE participated in 6-month community-based obesity treatments emphasizing either weight-management education + attention on EE (n = 34), self-regulatory skills-no attention on EE (n = 43), or self-regulatory skills + attention on EE (n = 42). Each condition incorporated physical activity for its mood-change potentials. Significant improvements in physical activity, mood, eating-related self-regulation and self-efficacy, EE, and weight were found in all groups, with greater advances occurring in the self-regulation vs. educationally focused conditions. Incorporating aggregated data, significant theory- and previous research-derived paths from changes in physical activity → mood → self-regulation → self-efficacy → EE change over 6 months, and over 12 months, were identified. Reductions in EE over 6 and 12 months predicted weight loss over 6, 12, and 24 months. Findings supported tenets of social cognitive theory, self-regulation theory, the mood-behavior model, and self-efficacy theory, and informed future behavioral obesity treatments on evidence-driven methods to better-address EE within scalable settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":"487-509"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144032170","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"School-Based Disease Prevention and Control Programs: A Comprehensive Analysis of Health, Academic Outcomes, and Mediating Factors.","authors":"Priscilla Adomako Gyasi, Binghai Sun, Lulin Zhou, Charles Osei Dwumfour","doi":"10.1007/s10935-025-00844-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10935-025-00844-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Schools play a crucial role in shaping the health and well-being of children and adolescents. With the global impact of COVID-19, the need for robust disease prevention and control programs within educational settings has become more apparent than ever. This study examined the association between school-based disease prevention and control programs and students' physical health and academic performance in Ghana, a developing country, with a focus on the mediating roles of mental health and health literacy. Conducted with 386 students using a descriptive cross-sectional design and a quantitative research approach, the study employed questionnaires for data collection and structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) for analysis. The findings indicated that school-based disease prevention and control programs are associated with higher health literacy among students and linked to better physical health and academic performance. However, the impact on mental health was not significant. The results indicated that these programs are positively associated with physical health outcomes and academic achievement, with mental health serving as a partial mediator. This research highlights the importance of integrating comprehensive disease prevention and control programs, including mental health workshops, to address gaps in mental health outcomes in schools. It also emphasizes the need for governments and development partners to develop robust health policies focused on school-based health programs. Adapting these initiatives to local contexts while implementing evidence-based strategies aligns with the Sustainable Development Goals of good health and well-being (SDG 3) and quality education (SDG 4).</p>","PeriodicalId":73905,"journal":{"name":"Journal of prevention (2022)","volume":" ","pages":"511-532"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144036616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}