Adolescent depression and suicide risk: association with sex and drug behavior

DD Hallfors, MW Waller, CA Ford, CT Halpern… - American journal of …, 2004 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Depression is common among adolescents, and suicide is the third leading
cause of death among 15-to 19-year-olds. Although both health problems have been …

Sexual and drug behavior patterns and HIV and STD racial disparities: the need for new directions

DD Hallfors, BJ Iritani, WC Miller… - American journal of …, 2007 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. We used nationally representative data to examine whether individuals' sexual
and drug behavior patterns account for racial disparities in sexually transmitted disease …

Which comes first in adolescence—sex and drugs or depression?

DD Hallfors, MW Waller, D Bauer, CA Ford… - American journal of …, 2005 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The notion that adolescents “self-medicate” depression with substance use
and sexual behaviors is widespread, but the temporal ordering of depression and these risk …

Truancy, grade point average, and sexual activity: A meta‐analysis of risk indicators for youth substance use

D Hallfors, JL Vevea, B Iritani, HS Cho… - Journal of School …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Society increasingly holds schools responsible for the effectiveness of health promotion
activities, such as drug abuse prevention efforts funded through the federal Safe and Drug …

Will thePrinciples of Effectiveness' improve prevention practice? Early findings from a diffusion study

D Hallfors, D Godette - Health Education Research, 2002 - academic.oup.com
This study examines adoption and implementation of the US Department of Education's new
policy, thePrinciples of Effectiveness', from a diffusion of innovations theoretical framework …

Prevalence and correlates of exchanging sex for drugs or money among adolescents in the United States

JM Edwards, BJ Iritani, DD Hallfors - Sexually transmitted infections, 2006 - sti.bmj.com
Objective: This study examined the prevalence and correlates of exchanging sex for drugs
or money among a nationally representative sample of 13 294 adolescents in the United …

Evaluating group-based interventions when control participants are ungrouped

DJ Bauer, SK Sterba, DD Hallfors - Multivariate behavioral research, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
Individually randomized treatments are often administered within a group setting. As a
consequence, outcomes for treated individuals may be correlated due to provider effects …

Evaluation of a high school peer group intervention for at-risk youth

H Cho, DD Hallfors, V Sánchez - Journal of abnormal child psychology, 2005 - Springer
The purpose of this paper is to examine the effectiveness of Reconnecting Youth, a
prevention program for at-risk high school youth. Data are from a large, independently …

Supporting adolescent orphan girls to stay in school as HIV risk prevention: evidence from a randomized controlled trial in Zimbabwe

D Hallfors, H Cho, S Rusakaniko… - … journal of public …, 2011 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. Using a randomized controlled trial in rural eastern Zimbabwe, we tested
whether comprehensive support to keep orphan adolescent girls in school could reduce HIV …

Measuring perceptions of innovation adoption: the diffusion of a federal drug prevention policy

M Pankratz, D Hallfors, H Cho - Health education research, 2002 - academic.oup.com
The purpose of this paper is to describe the testing of a new scale to assess the perceived
attributes of a federal drug prevention policy. The 17-item scale was administered to 107 …