Universal school intervention programs typically show small average effect sizes, with median effects between d = 0.07 and d = 0.16 per a cited review of 74 meta-analyses¶

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q2 i? The article cites Tanner-Smith et al. (2018), whose review of 74 meta-analyses found median average effect sizes of universal programs for school-aged youth falling between Cohen's d = 0.07 and Cohen's d = 0.16, concluding Cohen's benchmarks are inappropriate for interpreting universal intervention effects. → Duong et al. 2022

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Duong et al. 2022¶

Mylien T. Duong, Larissa M. Gaias, Eric Brown, Sharon Kiche, Lillian Nguyen, Catherine M. Corbin, Cassandra J. Chandler, Joanne J. Buntain-Ricklefs, Clayton R. Cook. (2022). A Cluster Randomized Pilot Trial of the Equity-Explicit Establish-Maintain-Restore Program among High School Teachers and Students. School Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12310-022-09516-3

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Narrative review attribution: the article reports, citing Tanner-Smith et al. (2018), that median effect sizes for universal programs fall between d = 0.07 and d = 0.16. This is a second-hand citation, not a synthesis computed in this article.

"In a review of 74 meta-analyses of universal intervention programs for school-aged youth, Tanner-Smith et al. (2018) found that the median average effect sizes of such programs tended to fall between Cohen’s d = 0.07 and Cohen’s d = 0.16."

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