Teacher's Perception of Stakeholder Support in the Peer Education Program about Drug Abuse Prevention

Some drug prevention programs have attempted to re-focus the goals of their efforts into the areas of increased self-regard, behavioral change, and increased group cohesiveness. Aware of the many difficulties in evaluating such an approach, it was decided to measure changes in conscious self-regard, of students, the teacher's perception of this self-regard, and classroom group cohesiveness. There was a significant increase in cohesiveness and an accompanying increase in self-regard, though not quite statistically significant.

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The Intention of Indonesian High School Students to Participate in Drug Abuse Prevention Through Peer Education Activities

İlköğretim Online ◽

10.17051/ilkonline.2021.01.67 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

High School Students ◽

Drug Abuse ◽

Peer Education ◽

Abuse Prevention ◽

Drug Abuse Prevention ◽

School Students

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Peer Education Intervention to Promote Drug Abuse Prevention among Secondary Schools Students

NeuroQuantology ◽

10.14704/nq.2021.19.5.nq21050 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 68-78

Author(s):

Naglaa M. EL Mokadem ◽

Eman A. Shokr ◽

Alyaa H. Salama ◽

Hanaa M. Abo Shereda ◽

Hanaa A. Radwan ◽

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Keyword(s):

Drug Abuse ◽

Secondary Schools ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Peer Education ◽

Control Group ◽

Abuse Prevention ◽

Education Intervention ◽

Drug Abuse Prevention ◽

Post Intervention ◽

And Control

Drug abuse is a worldwide serious health problem. Peer education is an effective method in preventing risky behaviors and educating teens about drug abuse. Aim of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of peer education intervention to promote drug abuse prevention among secondary schools students. Methods: a quasi-experimental research design was used. A multi-stage random sample selection of six secondary schools affiliated to the Ministry of Education and Technical Education was utilized. A convenience sample of 1200 students was selected from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades of the selected schools at Shebin El kom, Menoufia Governorate, Egypt. Instruments: (1) Sociodemographic data questionnaire; (2) Basic knowledge of students about drug abuse questionnaire; (3) Attitudes of the students toward drug abuse prevention assessment questionnaire and; (4) Self-efficacy of students about drug abuse prevention questionnaire. Results: the mean age of the studied students in both study and control groups were (16.14 ± 1.08 &15.96 ± 1.01) respectively. There were statistically significant differences between study and control group in the total mean score of knowledge about drug abuse post intervention (12.39 ±1.72 & 6.88 ± 1.35; P value .000) compared to pre-intervention (6.95 ± 2.14 & 6.72 ± 2.19; P 0 .535). There was a statistically significant difference between study and control group regarding students' attitudes toward drug abuse post intervention (160.98 ± 11.72 & 75.55 ± 13.35; P 0.000) compared to pre-intervention (77.53 ± 12.14 & 75.89 ± 11.19; P 0.735). Finally, there was a statistically significant difference between study and control group regarding students' self efficacy about drug abuse prevention post intervention (11.84 ± 1.92 & 8.18 ± 1.55; P 0.000) compared to pre-intervention (8.89 ± 3.14 & 7.99 ± 1.92; P 0.598). Conclusions: the findings of the current study suggest that peer education intervention has a positive effect and significantly enhances knowledge, self-efficacy and attitudes of secondary school students toward drug abuse. Recommendation: Peer education intervention as a school-based prevention programs is an appropriate model to be implemented for drug abuse prevention among school students.

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The “No Win”: Drug Education Evaluation Problems

Journal of Drug Education ◽

10.2190/1c1v-adwa-4abq-nt4h ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 125-129 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jon Colby Swanson

Keyword(s):

Drug Abuse ◽

Education Program ◽

Abuse Prevention ◽

Education Evaluation ◽

Drug Education ◽

Drug Abuse Prevention ◽

Advertising Agency ◽

New Approach ◽

Prevention And Treatment ◽

New Models

Confusion on the goals of prevention and treatment has led some schools to define the nature of their drug abuse education program in such fashion that they cannot reasonably expect success. Drug abuse prevention goals are the domain of education. New models for evaluating such goals need to be developed. In some areas drug education evaluation has imposed “no win” rules upon itself. An advertising agency would be delighted if its new approach netted an increase of from 10 per cent of the available market to 11 per cent of the available market. But educational efforts are expected to completely change the nature of nearly all peoples behavior.

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