Satoshi Matsui, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Kosuke Kiyohara, Junya Sado, Mamoru Ayusawa, Masahiko Nitta, Taku Iwami, Ken Nakata, Yuri Kitamura, Tomotaka Sobue
Sex Disparities in Receipt of Bystander Interventions for Students Who Experienced Cardiac Arrest in Japan
JAMA network open
random assignment made 182 clinically referred marijuana alcoholabusing adolescents one three treatments multidimensional family therapy mdft adolescent group therapy agt multifamily educational intervention mei treatment represented different theory base treatment format treatments based manual delivered onceaweek outpatient basis therapists experienced community clinicians trained modelspecific competence prior study supervised throughout clinical trial theorybased multimodal assessment strategy measured symptom changes prosocial functioning intake termination 6 12 months following termination results indicate improvement among youths three treatments mdft showing superior improvement overall mdft participants also demonstrated change 1year followup period important prosocial factors schoolacademic performance family functioning measured behavioral ratings results support efficacy mdft relatively shortterm multicomponent multitarget familybased intervention significantly reducing adolescent drug abuse facilitating adaptive protective developmental processes