Evaluation and program planning · 2025
Youth Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug (ATOD) use rates in a municipal youth and family master plan.
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Tataw David
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to determine if community-wide activities in the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan (PYFMP) might have influenced youth ATOD use changes in Pomona and in comparison to the US national jurisdiction.
METHODS: An integrated framework encompassing social cognitive theory and the risk and protective factors approach guided the study using a pre-post quasi-experimental design and z-test analysis. Same-group and independent group comparisons within and across school grades, intervention years, and jurisdictions were conducted in a quasi-experimental design. The baseline (2005-06) and follow-up (2009-10) samples were as follows: Pomona sample was 3967(2005-06) and 2693(2009-10); and for the US, the samples were 122,243(2005-06) and 101,141(2009-10). Contemporary and context-sensitive evaluation paradigms shape the study's design, plan of analysis, and results interpretation.
RESULTS: Within the five years under study, overall youth ATOD use trends in Pomona, particularly in comparison with US trends, showed a slow, but clear and positive shift.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Though PYFMP interventions might have positively impacted ATOD use among Pomona Youth, the pace of change was slow. Future studies should examine the following factors not investigated in this study: specific community-level factors that might have influenced individual youth ATOD use; the effect of underlying socioeconomic and resource factors on youth ATOD use; and the role of micro-level factors and interventions. Some evaluation lessons learned include involving evaluators in planning, being flexible with plans of analysis, and considering context when interpreting results.
METHODS: An integrated framework encompassing social cognitive theory and the risk and protective factors approach guided the study using a pre-post quasi-experimental design and z-test analysis. Same-group and independent group comparisons within and across school grades, intervention years, and jurisdictions were conducted in a quasi-experimental design. The baseline (2005-06) and follow-up (2009-10) samples were as follows: Pomona sample was 3967(2005-06) and 2693(2009-10); and for the US, the samples were 122,243(2005-06) and 101,141(2009-10). Contemporary and context-sensitive evaluation paradigms shape the study's design, plan of analysis, and results interpretation.
RESULTS: Within the five years under study, overall youth ATOD use trends in Pomona, particularly in comparison with US trends, showed a slow, but clear and positive shift.
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: Though PYFMP interventions might have positively impacted ATOD use among Pomona Youth, the pace of change was slow. Future studies should examine the following factors not investigated in this study: specific community-level factors that might have influenced individual youth ATOD use; the effect of underlying socioeconomic and resource factors on youth ATOD use; and the role of micro-level factors and interventions. Some evaluation lessons learned include involving evaluators in planning, being flexible with plans of analysis, and considering context when interpreting results.