Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Several Types of Teacher Trainings for Drug Abuse Prevention

随着青少年吸烟和饮酒等滥用药物问题日益严重，人们对在学校开展有效预防教育的期望也越来越高。近年来，在日本，以行为科学理论为基础的药物滥用预防项目得到了发展和广泛应用。但是，要分发这样的节目，对教师的培训起着非常重要的作用。作者策划并举办参与式工作坊，并评估其效果，以帮助教师获得正确实施药物滥用预防计划的能力。考虑到教育局的需要，我们开发了三种类型的讲习班（A讲习班由多名培训师连续两天进行10小时，B讲习班由一名培训师连续两天进行7.5小时，C讲习班由多名培训师连续三天进行9小时，间隔几天），并比较了它们的有效性。根据研讨会前后的调查结果显示，大多数参与者对研讨会的评价是积极的，对开展预防教育有信心的人的比例显着增加。此外，由于教师更多地感到工作坊容易理解和愉快，他们倾向于对自己的教学能力充满信心。从这些结果可以得出，培训的质量比培训人员的数量更重要等结论。

Along with the increasing seriousness of drug abuse including smoking and alcohol drinking among adolescents, expectations are increasing for effective prevention education in schools. Recently in Japan, drug abuse prevention programs based on the theory of behavior sciences have been developed and widely used. But, to distribute such programs, trainings for teachers play a very important role.The authors planned and conducted participation type workshops and evaluated the effects of them to help teachers acquire the abilities to conduct drug abuse prevention programs properly. Considering the needs of board of education, we have developed three types of workshops (workshop A was carried out by multiple trainers for 10 hours in two consecutive days, workshop B was carried out by one trainer for 7.5 hours in two consecutive days, workshop C was carried out by multiple trainers for 9 hours in 3 days with the interval of a few days) and compared the effectiveness of them.Based on the results of investigations before and after the workshops it was shown that most of the participants evaluated the workshops positively, and the ratio of persons who were confident in conducting the prevention education increased dramatically. In addition, as teachers more felt that the workshops were easy to understand and enjoyable, they tended to be confident in their teaching abilities. From these results, it has been concluded that the quality of workshop are more important than the number of trainers etc.