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Among the most important limitations of the programs are the shortage of longitudinal designs and the insufficiency of time that ranges between the completion of the intervention and the measurement of the results, which hardly ever exceeds six months. Another difficulty is that that supposes to include exogenous, ecological, cultural, and interpersonal factors in a same model. On the other hand, the variety of national origins of Latinos in the U.S. diminishes the representation of the findings because it includes those groups, who like the Argentineans and Bolivians, have a reduced presence in this country. Finally, given the shortage of culturally appropriate prevention programs, it seems prudent to extend the ethnographic and etiological investigation before constructing new programs for Latino teens.

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