Short-term effects of the strengthening families Program (SFP 10-14) in Brazil: a cluster randomized controlled trial.

Introduction: This study reports the evaluation of the short-term effects of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP 10-14), adapted as Famílias Fortes (Strong Families) in Brazil, on preventing adolescent drug use and improving parenting behaviors.

Methods: A two-arm, parallel cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 60 Social Assistance Reference Centers (SARC) from 12 Brazilian municipalities. In each city, the SARC were randomly assigned to the intervention or control group.

The role of monitoring skills in mediating the association between parent's hazardous alcohol consumption and adolescents' drinking.

Background: This study aimed to investigate whether parental monitoring skills mediate the effect of hazardous parental alcohol consumption on adolescents' lifetime alcohol use.

Methods: This three wave longitudinal study was conducted with 884 families (n = 1,768 participants) to evaluate the effectiveness of a family-based drug prevention program for adolescents and parents across 12 Brazilian cities. We used structural equation mediation modeling to analyze the effect of hazardous parental alcohol consumption at baseline on adolescents' lifetime alcohol use at 12-month follow-up, mediated by parental monitoring skills latent dimension at 6-month follow-up.

Being bullied and using drugs are associate with eating disorder symptoms in Brazilian students.

Objective: This study's main purpose is to evaluate factors associated with eating disorder (ED) symptoms among Brazilian adolescents.

Method: The sample consisted of 5,213 students, mean age 13.24 (SD ±0.

A cluster randomized controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of the school-based drug prevention program #Tamojunto2.0.

Aims: The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the government school-based program #Tamojunto2.0, the third Brazilian version of the European drug prevention program, Unplugged, in preventing the use of alcohol and other drugs.

Design: A parallel, two-arm cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 205 classes in 73 public schools (37 intervention and 36 control) with a baseline assessment and follow-up after 9 months.

Variation in primary health care services after implementation of quality improvement policy in Brazil.

Background: Brazil is the most populous country with a public, universal and free health care system. The National Program for Access and Quality Improvement in Primary Care (PMAQ) was created to improve the quality of primary health care (PHC).

Objective: To evaluated whether progress generally has been made within Brazil's PHC since PMAQ implementation, and if changes occurred uniformly in the country, while also identifying municipal characteristics that may have influenced the improvement.