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The problem
Intervention: Building a Better Bessemer - a multi-level violence prevention program including youth social-emotional learning, mentoring, parental support, police engagement, and community improvement projects
Who it was tested with: Youth and families in Bessemer, Alabama, a community with high crime.
The same group is measured before the intervention and again afterwards, with a baseline and an endline and sometimes a midline. Change is visible, but other causes cannot be ruled out.
"Evaluation included pre-post surveys and focus groups." The researchers measured the same group of youth before and after the program but did not include a comparison group to isolate the intervention's effects from other influences.
No comparison or control group limits causal inference; lacks information on follow-up duration, participant retention, and demographic characteristics of participants.
Across countries and designs
1 study · 1 country
