Promoting Social Inclusion in Schools: A Group-Randomized Trial of Effects on Student Health Risk Behavior and Well-Being
George C. Patton, MD,
Lyndal Bond, PhD,
John B. Carlin, PhD,
Lyndal Thomas, BSc(Hons),
Helen Butler, BA(Hons), Dip Ed, G Dip in Adol Health,
Sara Glover, PhD,
Richard Catalano, PhD and
Glenn Bowes, PhD
George Patton is with the Centre for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Australia. Lyndal Bond is with the Centre for Adolescent Health and Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne. John Carlin is with the Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit, Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne. At the time of the study, Lyndal Thomas and Sara Glover were with the Centre for Adolescent Health and Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne. Helen Butler is with the Centre for Adolescent Health and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute. Richard Catalano is with the Seattle Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. Glenn Bowes is with the Department of Pediatrics, University of Melbourne.
FIGURE 2—Prevalence (with 95% confidence intervals) of health risk behaviors among 8th-grade students in schools, intervention and control groups in 1997 (a), 1999 (b), and 2001 (c).