The Prevent Alcohol and Risk Related Trauma in Youth (P.A.R.T.Y.) program is an injury prevention program set up in 2011 at a Level-1 trauma center in Germany. Its objective is the prevention of road traffic accidents among young road users. Our goal is to enable adolescents to recognize risks and to improve life-changing behavior to reduce the severity of injury and the number of killed young ...

This article reports the 4- and 5-year follow-up results of evaluating the effects of a marital distress prevention program. The program, Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), is a 5-session program designed to teach couples effective communication and conflict management skills. At the 5-year follow-up, intervention, as compared with control, couples had higher levels of posi...

BACKGROUND Implementing quality improvement programs that require behavior change on the part of health care professionals and patients has proven difficult in routine care. Significant randomized trial evidence supports creating fall prevention programs for community-dwelling older adults, but adoption in routine care has been limited. Nationally-collected data indicated that our local facilit...

College student suicide prevention efforts are important to campus administrators and mental health professionals due to increasing concerns about managing suicidal students. This article describes the development and preliminary effectiveness of a campus suicide prevention program designed for American Indian (AI) students who are at higher risk for suicide compared with the general population...

OBJECTIVE Understanding prevention program risks and the contextual factors associated with negative program outcomes is critical to assisting the development of public policy that is aimed at avoiding future prevention-related harm while maximizing prevention success. The purpose of this review was to systematically analyze published studies evaluating substance use prevention programs, to det...

OBJECTIVE To measure the effect of a violence prevention program on pediatric residents' violence prevention guidance during well-child visits. DESIGN Prospective study of an educational intervention. SETTING Inner-city tertiary care hospital and satellite site. PARTICIPANTS Pediatric residents. INTERVENTIONS A 2(1/2)-hour violence prevention program, consisting of an introductory talk,...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed a cooperative agreement with health departments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia to strengthen chronic disease prevention and management efforts through the implementation of evidence-based strategies, such as CDC's National Diabetes Prevention Program. The National Diabetes Prevention Program supports organizations to ...