Random Assignment of Schools to Groups in the Drug Resistance Strategies Rural Project: Some New Methodological Twists

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Discusses the random assignment procedures used in a school-based intervention study. The study assigned schools to three different groups. Two used different versions of a substance abuse intervention and the third served as a control group. Describes the assignment process used to achieve pretest equivalence among the groups, one factor of which was school rurality.

John W. Graham, Jonathan Pettigrew, Michelle Miller-Day, et al.

Prevention Science, 15(4), 516-525

08/2014

Research methods and resources · Statistics and data · Substance use and misuse