Meta-analysis of drug abuse prevention programs
By: editor, William J. Bukoski.
Contributors: Bukoski, William J.; National Institute on Drug Abuse. Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research.; National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Series: NIDA research monograph -- 170.; NIH publication -- no. 97-4146.
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Rockville, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Substance Abuse -- prevention & control -- United States -- congresses.; Program Evaluation -- methods -- congresses.; Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- methods -- congresses.
Notes: "Based on the papers from a technical review ... held on July 26-27, 1993."--p. ii.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: Meta-analysis of drug abuse prevention research; Meta-analysis of adolescent drug prevention programs: results of the 1933 [i.e. 1993] meta-analysis; Validity of integrity tests for predicting drug and alcohol abuse: a meta-analysis; Meta-analysis and models of substance abuse prevention; Realities of the effect size calculation process: considerations for beginning meta-analysts; Issues and challenges in coding interventions for meta-analysis of prevention research; Experiments versus quasi-experiments: Do they yield the same answer?; Drawing generalized causal inferences based on meta-analysis; Issues in classification in meta-analysis in substance abuse prevention research; Improving meta-analysis for policy purposes; Using linked meta-analysis to build policy models; Some limiting factors in meta-analysis.