Authors:Emina Mehanović (Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy), Marco Martorana (Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy), Erica Viola (Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale,...
Author: Zrinka Selestrin (Teaching Institute for Public Health of Primorsko-goranska County)
Background: The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to their global proliferation, rendering their presence an unavoidable aspect of contemporary life. This widespread availability has naturally extended to the youngest population, including preschool-aged children.
Parental...
Authors: Lucija Furman (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia), Andreja Drev (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia), Helena Jeriček Klanšček (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia), Vesna Pucelj (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia), Maja Roškar (National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia)
Background: Substance use (SU) among children and...
Authors: Lorraine Cousin Cabrolier (AP-HP. Nord-Université Paris Cité, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Unité d'épidémiologie Clinique, Inserm, CIC-1426, Paris, France.), Lisa Duconget (AP-HP. Nord-Université Paris Cité, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Unité d'épidémiologie Clinique, Inserm, CIC-1426, Paris, France.), Claire Collin (Université Paris Cité, France), Clara Eyraud (ECEVE...
Author: Ulvi Kõrgemaa
Background: Achieving and maintaining patient well-being is a key goal of nursing. Well-being extends beyond physical health and includes psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions. These aspects are critical in planning prevention-oriented and holistic nursing care. This study provides a 30-year perspective on how daily nursing activities in Estonia have...
Authors: Emily Dauria, Jerry Jiang, Katerina Christopoulos, Logan Lehman, Marina Tolou-Shams, Martha Shumway, Salam Ayana
Background: Women impacted by the criminal legal system (WI-CLS) in the US encounter intersecting stigmas because of their multiply marginalized identities, have elevated vulnerability to and incidence of HIV, and experience persistent inequities in uptake of HIV...
Authors:Jose Pedro Espada Sanchez, Marina Serrano-Ortiz, Mireia Orgilés (Miguel Hernandez University)
Background: Early intervention in emotional development is essential for preventing mental health issues. This study evaluates the impact of a socio-emotional skills enhancement program on behavioural inhibition in children aged 4 to 6 years.
Methods: Parents of 219 children...
Authors: Jorge Vacas (Smoking Cessation and Addictive Disorders Unit. Faculty of Psychology. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Institute of Psychology (IPsiUS), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).), María Ramos-Carro (Smoking Cessation and Addictive Disorders Unit. Faculty of Psychology. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Institute of Psychology (IPsiUS),...
Authors: Claire Degail (Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare - North, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Sabine Kaiser (Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare - North, UiT The Arctic University of Norway), Reidar Jakobsen (Regional Centre for Child and Youth Mental Health and Child Welfare - North, UiT The Arctic University of...
Authors: Claudia Alejandra Corpus Espinosa (Universidad de Sevilla), Isotta Mac Fadden (Universidad de Salamanca), Marta Lima-Serrano (Universidad de Sevilla)
Background: Culturally adapted EBPs offer a cost-effective way to prevent substance use and mental health issues in adolescents. Therefore, understanding how to leverage and adapt EBPs is vital to ensure their effectiveness,...
Authors: Carmen Bettencourt (Associação Solidaried’arte - Associação de Educação e Integração pela Arte e Desenvolvimento Cultural Social e Local), Leonardo Sousa (Associação Solidaried’arte - Associação de Educação e Integração pela Arte e Desenvolvimento Cultural Social e Local) Natacha Torres da Silva (Instituto Português da Juventude, I.P.), Susana Henriques (Universidade Aberta,...
Authors: Emina Mehanović (Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Piemonte Orientale, Vercelli, Italy), Mariaelisa Renna (Department of Translational Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy), Marco Martorana (Department of Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition, University of Eastern Piedmont, Vercelli, Italy), Erica Viola...
Authors: Jorge Vacas (Smoking Cessation and Addictive Disorders Unit. Faculty of Psychology. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Institute of Psychology (IPsiUS), University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain).), María Ramos-Carro (Smoking Cessation and Addictive Disorders Unit. Faculty of Psychology. University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain); Institute of Psychology (IPsiUS),...
Authors: Xiaoning Zhang (University of Cambridge), Dave DeGarmo (University of Oregon), Dongying (Iris) Ji (University of Cambridge), Elizabeth Nixon (Trinity College Dublin), Gordon Harold (University of Cambridge), Leslie Leve (University of Oregon)
Background: Approximately 1 in 7 adolescents experience mental ill health internationally. The prevalence of these problems highlights...
Authors: Denis Veselý (Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Psychology), Martin Dolejš (Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Psychology), Natálie Kubínková (Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Psychology), Roman Procházka (Palacký University Olomouc, Department of Psychology)
Background: Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), as a growing phenomenon among young people, implies...
Authors:Yubo Xu, Suh-Ruu Ou, Arthur Reynolds
Background: Supported by Expectancy-Value Theory (Wigfield & Eccles, 2000), the impact of parent educational expectations on child educational outcomes has garnered increasing attention over the past decades. However, we know less about the role of preventive interventions in positively impacting child educational attainment through...
Authors: Carlie J. Sloan (Arizona State University), Gregory M. Fosco (Pennsylvania State University)
Background: Digital technologies are emerging as an effective modality for delivering evidence-based interventions (Brietenstein et al., 2014). Yet, when and why parents engage with digital intervention tools in their daily life remains largely unknown. The current study assessed...
Authors: Clara Eyraud (ECEVE UMR 1123 - Inserm - Paris Cité University - France) Enora Le Roux (U1123, INSERM, Paris Cité University, PARIS, France; CIC1426, INSERM, PARIS, France; SHU-SMAJA, FSEF, PARIS, FRANCE), Agnès Dumas (SESSTIM, INSERM, Aix Marseille University, MARSEILLE, France), Philippe Martin (U1123, INSERM, Paris Cité University, PARIS, France; CIC1426, INSERM, PARIS, France;...
Author: Dr. Elina Renko (University of Helsinki)
Presenter/Corresponding author: Elina Renko
Background: Alcohol-related problems are widely viewed as health problems and thus as marginal to the social workers' job. Social workers, who work outside the substance- abuse practice settings, frequently encounter clients with hazardous and harmful drinking. This study explores how...
Authors: Siniša Baljo (Association For Addiction Prevention NARKO-NE), Amir Hasanović (Association For Addiction Prevention NARKO-NE), Andrea Mijatović (Association For Addiction Prevention NARKO-NE)
Background: Epidemiological research on addiction-related habits and behaviours has not been conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last decade. The Association for Addiction Prevention...
Authors: Carmen Orte (Universitat de les Illes Balears), María Valero (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Assia El Hindaz Navarro (Universitat de les Illes Balears), Joan Amer (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
Background: Evidence-based family programs have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing substance abuse, sexual risk behaviors, and antisocial conduct among children and...
Authors: Diana Kajic (Jönköping University), Therése Skoog (University Of Gothenburg), Tina M Olsson (Jönköping University)
Background: Social workers face unique challenges in meeting the developmental needs of young people in out-of-home care (OHC). Supporting transition from OHC to independent adulthood includes dealing with adverse experiences of the past, placement insecurities,...
Authors: Claire Collin (Université Paris Cité, France), Corinne Alberti (Université Paris Cité, France), Philippe Martin (Inserm CIC1426 / U1123), Clara Eyraud (ECEVE UMR 1123 - Inserm - Paris Cité University - France), Enora Le Roux (U1123, INSERM, Paris Cité University, Paris, France; CIC1426, INSERM, Paris, France; SHU-SMAJA, FSEF, Paris, France)
Background: Digital health...
Author: Nathaniel von der Embse (University of South Florida)
Background: Youth mental health needs have increased over the last five years, and schools are an important context to facilitate preventative services (DeFrance et al., 2022). For prevention initiatives to be effective, proactive rather than reactive assessment is necessary. Research has supported the practice of universal...
Authors: Jose Pedro Espada Sanchez, Mireia Orgilés, Marina Serrano-Ortiz (Miguel Hernandez University)
Background: Behavioural inhibition is characterized by heightened shyness and withdrawal in response to novel objects, unfamiliar situations, and unknown people. It is considered a risk factor for anxiety disorders. Understanding how this trait relates to emotional perception is...
Authors: Triin Vilms (National Institute for Health Development), Eike Siilbek (National Institute for Health Development)
Background: The European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) is a standardized training program designed to improve professionals’ knowledge and skills in evidence-based prevention. In Estonia and across Europe, EUPC trainings have been implemented since 2018, but with...
Authors: Jose Pedro Espada Sanchez, Victor Amoros-Reche, Mireia Orgilés (Miguel Hernandez University)
Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) during childhood or adolescence is associated with significant impairment in academic, social, and emotional functioning. Given that OCD frequently coexists with internalizing disorders such as depression, generalized anxiety disorder...
Background: Systematic reviews reported a high prevalence of psychological distress among university students. As a response to this concerning scenario, the Italian Ministry of University and Research funded the multicentric project "Health Mode On" (HMO) involving 10 academic institutions and aimed to map psychological distress, coordinate counselling services and set up health promotion...
The rapid advancement of digital technologies has led to their global proliferation, rendering their presence an unavoidable aspect of contemporary life. This widespread availability has naturally extended to the youngest population, including preschool-aged children.
Parental attitudes represent one of the key determinants of a child's exposure to digital technologies. In the context of...
Background
Substance use (SU) among children and adolescents remains a pressing public health issue, highlighting the importance of implementing effective prevention efforts in schools. Although science-based guidelines for SU prevention have been established, literature reviews show that schools often implement both evidence-based programmes and programmes lacking proven effectiveness....
Background: Adolescent well-being impacts lifelong health outcomes. Understanding how youth conceptualize well-being is essential for developing effective prevention approaches across the continuum . Digital environments, central to youth culture, offer innovative methodologies to explore youth perspectives at different prevention levels. This study investigates how adolescent gamers represent...
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The purpose of this presentation will be to show novel research examining the effectiveness and intervention scale up of Check-In/Check-Out (CICO; Hawken et al., 2021). CICO is a Tier 2 behavioral intervention designed to prevent challenging student behavior and to promote student wellbeing. Although empirical studies (e.g., Flannery et al., 2024; Kittelman et al., 2024) have shown...
Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared climate change as one of the greatest health threats to humanity. Current trajectories in climate change thus indicate that chil-dren of today, regardless of their residence, face a future in which they will need to be prepared to navigate the increasingly complex challenges related to climate change. This emphasizes a need for...
Background: Relapse is a common phenomenon in the smoking cessation process. While previous research has shown a positive association between social support and smoking cessation outcomes, little is known about the specific impact of different sources of social support on smoking relapse, particularly exploring differences by sex. The aim of this study was to examine the association...
Background: Norway’s Child Welfare Services (CWS) are municipal services that aim to prevent child abuse and neglect. To this end, CWS often work with other health or social services, frequently referred to as interorganizational collaboration. This study aims to investigate the associations of different factors with parents and employees’ evaluations of interorganizational collaboration,...
Background: Culturally adapted EBPs offer a cost-effective way to prevent substance use and mental health issues in adolescents. Therefore, understanding how to leverage and adapt EBPs is vital to ensure their effectiveness, relevance, and sustainability in real-world settings. This research, employing a community-based approach, examines the cultural adaptation process of prevention programs...
Background
Socioemotional development strategies are an important way of empowering individuals to choose healthy behaviours. Scientific evidence shows that the earlier socio-emotional learning/management issues are addressed, the better the outcomes.
Methods
The program “Calmly– Learning to Learn Yourself” focuses on the development of children’s socio-emotional skills and positive...
Background: Antisocial behaviour is a result of a multifactorial process involving social-level and individual-level factors. Only few studies explored the mediating effects of social-level factors through proximal influences of individual-level factors. To extend previous findings, this study aims to investigate the association of social-level factors with the probability of engaging in...
Background: Knowing which personal variables influence smoking relapse can help to improve cessation treatment effectiveness. Previous research has indicated that high body mass index (BMI) may be associated with smoking cessation treatment failure. However, scarce research has analyzed the relationship of this variable with long-term relapse outcomes. This study examines whether baseline...
Approximately 1 in 7 adolescents experience mental ill health internationally. The prevalence of these problems highlights the importance of identifying risk factors for adolescent mental health to develop effective prevention strategies. Family processes and relationship dynamics have a pronounced influence on child development. Previous studies have demonstrated that interparental conflict...
Background | Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), as a growing phenomenon among young people, implies a substantial threat to the mental health of adolescents and young adults, thus becoming a significant global public health problem.
Methods | Data were collected through a quantitative questionnaire survey administered face-to-face to students in ISCED 2 and ISCED 3 education levels. The...
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In Sweden, approximately 20% of children and adolescents grow up with at least one parent who misuses alcohol. These children are at increased risk not only for developing substance use problems themselves but also for a range of behavioral and emotional difficulties. This study aims to evaluate the effects of the most commonly used selective prevention strategy in Sweden: child...
$\textbf{Background:}$ Digital technologies are emerging as an effective modality for delivering evidence-based interventions (Brietenstein et al., 2014). Yet, when and why parents engage with digital intervention tools in their daily life remains largely unknown. The current study assessed barriers and promoters of daily engagement with the Family Relationships Toolkit, a brief family-based...
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NEET refers to people aged 15-29 who are "Not in Employment, Education, or Training." They accounted for 11.2% of young people in Europe (2023). This heterogeneous population has a social status that influences health behaviours. Problematic substance use is particularly prevalent among NEETs compared to their peers, potentially reinforcing their already existing isolation or...
Title: Perceptions of alcohol-related problems among social workers and their clients
Authors: Dr. Elina Renko
Affiliation(s): University of Helsinki
Presenter/Corresponding author: Elina Renko
Contact details: elina.renko@helsinki.fi
Background: Alcohol-related problems are widely viewed as health problems and thus as marginal to the social workers' job. Social workers, who work...
Epidemiological research on addiction-related habits and behaviours has not been conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the last decade. The Association for Addiction Prevention NARKO NE, based on the European Prevention Curriculum, conducted the first analytical epidemiological research since 2016. The study examined internet usage habits, gambling, consumption of tobacco products, alcohol...
Background:
Harmful gambling is a public health issue linked to adverse health outcomes as well as high levels of suicidality, and there is pressing need for initiatives to minimise such harms. However, gamblers experiencing harm do not ordinarily seek help, and if they do it is typically ‘crisis driven’, only occurring after experiencing severe harm. Community healthcare services for mental...
Background: The project aimed to synthesise the processes, theory, outcomes and implementation of school-based indicated interventions. Indicated interventions attempt to prevent the first onset of anxiety and depression in at-risk children and adolescents. Effectiveness reviews show indicated interventions can decrease students’ anxiety and depression symptoms, and, for depression, that...
Background: Evidence-based family programs have demonstrated effectiveness in preventing substance abuse, sexual risk behaviors, and antisocial conduct among children and adolescents (Arnason et al., 2020). Trainers play a key role in the success of these programs, influencing participant recruitment, engagement, and implementation (Negreiros et al., 2020). Equipping facilitators with the...
Background: Digital health interventions (DHIs) are complex and rapidly evolving, posing challenges for research programme design. Using the UK Medical Research Council’s four-phase research framework (development, feasibility, evaluation, implementation) as a reference, this study examines how researchers select and progress through phases when evaluating DHIs.
Methods: A...
Background. Youth mental health needs have increased over the last five years, and schools are an important context to facilitate preventative services (DeFrance et al., 2022). For prevention initiatives to be effective, proactive rather than reactive assessment is necessary. Research has supported the practice of universal screening to facilitate early identification and preventative mental...
Background: This study aimed to understand the context and needs of adolescents experiencing subclinical anxiety and depression symptoms, who are termed in policy as the missing middle in Wales. It is part of a project to inform the identification and adaptation of a feasible, acceptable and effective targeted secondary school-based intervention to Wales.
Methods: The study drew on two...
Background
The European Prevention Curriculum (EUPC) is a standardized training program designed to improve professionals’ knowledge and skills in evidence-based prevention. In Estonia and across Europe, EUPC trainings have been implemented since 2018, but with varying goals, target groups, and expectations, leading to differing assumptions about the training’s short- and long-term...
