One-year outcomes of Project Towards No Drug Abuse
One-year outcomes of Project Towards No Drug Abuse
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DOI:
10.1006/pmed.1998.0338
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发表时间:
1998-07-01
影响因子:
5.1
通讯作者:
Craig, S
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作者:
Sussman, S;Dent, CW;Craig, S
Objectives. This paper presents the 1-year outcomes evaluation of Project Towards No Drug Abuse (Project TND), a large-scale indicated drug abuse prevention program in southern California applied to continuation high school youth, who are at high risk for drug abuse.Methods. The efficacy of a nine-lesson health motivation-social skills-decision-making curriculum was evaluated in a three-condition experimental design. Twenty-one schools were randomly assigned by block to one of three conditions-standard care (control), classroom program, and classroom program plus a semester-long school-as-community component. A pretest was followed by a 3-week-long drug abuse prevention program and then a posttest at 14 continuation high schools. The 7 standard care schools received only the pretest followed by the posttest (same time duration). Subjects were followed up 1 year later.Results. Changes in use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and hard drugs were assessed in a pretest-1-year follow-up time interval. The follow-up rate was 67% (analysis n = 1,074). Indicated preventive effects were found on alcohol and hard drug use. No differences were found across the two program conditions.Conclusions. Project TND is the first program to demonstrate 1-year self-reported behavioral effects on alcohol use and hard drug use among older, high-risk youth by using a school-based, limited-session model. (C) 1998 American Health Foundation and Academic Press.