Christopher J Powers, Karen L Bierman, Donna L Coffman
Restrictive educational placements increase adolescent risks for students with early-starting conduct problems
Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines
test efficacy group social skills intervention social functioning adolescents brain injury thirtysix adolescents mean age 14y sd 1y 8mo age range 12y 1mo16y 3mo 17 females acquired brain injury abi 12mo postintervention n19 cerebral palsy n17 randomly allocated program education enrichment relational skills peers usual care primary outcome social skills improvement systemrating scales ssisrs secondary outcomes scores derived test adolescent social skills knowledgerevised tasskr social responsiveness scale second edition quality socialization questionnaire betweengroup differences postintervention 26week retention time point compared using linear mixed modelling continuous outcomes poisson regression count data betweengroup differences primary outcome ssisrs regarding secondary outcomes peersexposed group achieved significantly greater improvements tasskr mean difference md68 95 confidence interval ci4888 p0001 maintained 26week retention time point md81 95 ci60102 p0001 peers also associated significant increase parentreported invited gettogethers 26 weeks incidence rate ratio40 95 ci10160 p005 adolescents brain injury completed peers learned retained social knowledge increased social participation