Evidence Summary for LifeSkills Training

An evaluation of the impact of 'Lifeskills' training on road safety, substance use and hospital attendance in adolescence.

PURPOSE To evaluate if attendance at Lifeskills, a safety education centre for children in Year 6 (10-11 years), is associated with engagement in safer behaviours, and with fewer accidents and injuries, in adolescence. METHODS The sample are participants in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children who attended school in the Lifeskills catchment area in Year 6; 60% attended Lifeskil...

Coping skills training to reduce psychosocial risk factors for medical disorders: a field trial evaluating effectiveness in multiple worksites.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether a commercial coping skills training program shown to reduce psychosocial risk factors in randomized clinical trials of patients with coronary heart disease is also effective in achieving similar improvements among stressed workers in a real world corporate setting. METHODS Conduct an observational trial to evaluate the impact of the Williams LifeSkills Workshop ...

A systematic review of the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle income countries

BACKGROUND This systematic review provides a narrative synthesis of the evidence on the effectiveness of mental health promotion interventions for young people in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). Commissioned by the WHO, a review of the evidence for mental health promotion interventions across the lifespan from early years to adulthood was conducted. This paper reports on the findings f...

Evidence Based Research for Substance Abuse Offenders Using the American Community Corrections Institute’s Adult Cognitive Lifeskills Substance Abuses Home Study (aclsa/hs) Workbook in Collaboration with Box Elder County Justice Court Brigham City, Utah Honorable Kevin L. Christensen, Presiding

Project LifeSkills - a randomized controlled efficacy trial of a culturally tailored, empowerment-based, and group-delivered HIV prevention intervention for young transgender women: study protocol

BACKGROUND Transgender women in the U.S. have an alarmingly high incidence rate of HIV infection; condomless anal and vaginal sex is the primary risk behavior driving transmission. Young transgender women are the subpopulation at the highest risk for HIV. Despite this, there are no published randomized controlled efficacy trials testing interventions to reduce sexual risk for HIV among this gro...