Abstract
Aims: To test how a housing voucher generating residential mobility to lower-poverty neighborhoods, compared with public housing controls, influenced adolescent binge drinking, and whether gender modified effects. Design: A multi-site household-level three-arm randomized trial of a housing intervention executed 1994–98, evaluated 2001–02. Setting: Five US cities: Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Los Angeles, CA; and New York, NY. Participants: A total of 3537 adolescents in 4248 low-income eligible families were randomized; 2829 adolescents were analyzed at the interim evaluation (1950 in treatment; 879 in the control group). Attrition bias was accounted for with a 3-in-10 oversampling of hard-to-reach participants (effective response rate: 89%). Interventions: The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) trial randomized volunteer low-income families in public housing to receive (1) rental subsidies redeemable in neighborhoods with
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 48-58 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Addiction |
Volume | 114 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
Bibliographical note
Export Date: 26 December 2018CODEN: ADICE
Correspondence Address: Osypuk, T.L.; Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public HealthUnited States; email: tosypuk@umn.edu
Funding details: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, R21 AA024530
Funding text 1: This research was supported by National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism grant no. R21 AA024530.
Keywords
- Adolescent
- binge drinking
- housing
- neighborhood
- randomized
- social experiment
PubMed: MeSH publication types
- Journal Article
- Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
- Randomized Controlled Trial