Motamedi, Mojdeh
Caldwell, Linda
Wegner, Lisa
Smith, Edward
Jones, Damon
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute on Drug Abuse (P50 DA10075, P50 DA039838)
Institute of Education Sciences (R305B090007)
Article History
First Online: 30 April 2016
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: This research was supported by the National Institute on Drug Abuse R01 DA01749. The first author was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences grant R305B090007 and by the National Institute on Drug Abuse from Award Numbers T32 DA017629, P50 DA10075, and P50 DA039838. The views expressed in this article are ours and do not necessarily represent the official views of granting agencies.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The research was conducted in full compliance with the APA standards for ethical practice in research, under the review of the Pennsylvania State University and the University of the Western Cape Institutional Review Board. These findings have not been published in any form nor submitted for consideration elsewhere.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all nine schools included in the study. All participating students provided assent and passive/opt out parental consent to be in the study. Passive/opt out parental consents were such that legal guardians had to return a form stating they did not want their child to participate as delineated in forms mailed to the students’ addresses and a second copy students took home with them from school.