Large-scale Study on the Long-term Effectiveness of Drug Abuse Prevention Education Focusing on Life Skills Development

这项为期三年的纵向研究的目的是测试一项健康教育计划的有效性，该计划的重点是发展生活技能，以防止日本初中生吸烟、饮酒和使用非法药物。根据最后一次在3年级进行的后测结果，该计划对女孩特别有效，表明干预组在自尊、社交技能、应对技能和拒绝同龄人压力吸烟或使用非法药物的自我效能方面得分高于对照组。

The purpose of this three-year longitudinal study was to test the effectiveness of a health education program focusing on life skills development to prevent cigarette smoking, alcohol drinking and use of illegal drugs among Japanese junior high school students. According to the results of the last posttest conducted in the 3^<rd> grade, the program was especially effective for girls, showing that the intervention group had higher scores on self-esteem, social skills, coping skills and self-efficacy of refusing peer pressures to smoke or use illegal drugs than the comparison group.