School-based program helps prevent dating violence among teens, especially boys
Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 07:00
in Psychology & Sociology
A school-based program that integrates information about healthy relationships into the existing ninth-grade curriculum appears to reduce adolescent dating violence and increase condom use two and a half years later, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. The effects of the low-cost intervention appear stronger in boys...