Mary Ann Pentz

TL;DR: Analyses of 42 schools indicate that the prevalence rates of use for all three drugs are significantly lower at 1-year follow-up in the intervention condition relative to the delayed intervention condition, and the net increase in drug use prevalence among intervention schools is half that of delayed intervention schools.

TL;DR: Developers of social-emotional preventions should design curricula to explicitly promote the developmental integration of executive functioning, verbal processing, and emotional awareness to enhance prevention outcomes particularly if those preventions are implemented during a time of peak neurocognitive development.

TL;DR: It is suggested that several features of the built environment associated with smart growth planning may promote important forms of physical activity that are associated with physical activity or body mass.

TL;DR: The authors compare results from stratified analysis, standard logistic models, conditional logistic model, the GEE models, and random-effects models by analyzing a binary outcome from two and seven repeated measurements, respectively.

TL;DR: E-cigarette use in never-smoking youth may increase risk of subsequent initiation of cigarettes and other combustible products during the transition to adulthood when the purchase of tobacco products becomes legal.