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Culturally sensitive substance use treatment for racial/ethnic minority youth to reduce use

Summary of the evidence

Rating
  • Unknown effectiveness

Culturally sensitive substance use treatment interventions for racial/ethnic minority youth were found in a systematic review with meta-analysis (Steinka-Fry et al., 2017) to have no significant effect in:

  • reducing use when compared to ‘treatment as usual’ and bona fide comparisons (i.e. intervetions that differed only on the culturally sensitive elements)

Details

Note: this evidence summary is only valid for the outcomes, target groups, settings and substances/patterns of use described below.

Name of response option
  • Culturally sensitive treatment programmes
Desired outcome(s)
  • reduce substance use
Area(s)
  • Treatment
Specific substance or pattern of use
  • not-drug specific
Target group(s) or setting(s)
  • ethnic minority
  • young people

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