School-based drug prevention in Russia:Capacity Building

描述（由申请人提供）： 这项R13会议赠款涉及能力建设和行为科学技术转让，以促进俄罗斯预防界采用有效的学校药物滥用预防做法。会议议程围绕四个主题综合会议设计，使与会者能够计划，实施和评估（P.I.E.）。他们自己的文化健全的中学毒品预防计划。会议组织团队利用了40多年来在进行分组随机预防试验方面的综合专业知识，并在预防科学，传播和在职教师培训方面提供了强大的敏锐性。这次会议的跨国风味有效地旨在促进采用和适应，同时解决许多阻止俄罗斯预防专家参与最先进的计划开发和评估的计划保真度和实施障碍。值得注意的是，俄罗斯的预防措施远远落后于美国目前的预防技术，几乎没有机制解决成功的行为科学技术转让。这可能是不幸的，特别是考虑到最近的流行病学调查结果显示，与美国青年相比，俄罗斯青年的酒精和其他非法药物使用率相对较高。完全缺乏任何先进的预防信息，加上缺乏积极的传播方法，可能会妨碍俄罗斯控制甚至消除青少年吸毒问题的努力。与学生，教师和管理人员的一系列焦点小组增加了会议议程，并收集了有关有效实施的障碍的更精确和详细的信息。这一项目有可能阐明那些构成在国际范围有效传播“最佳”预防做法的潜在障碍的形成机制。在认识到这些障碍，翻译知识传播和服务研究的方案可以极大地有利于俄罗斯的羽翼未丰的学校为基础的药物预防活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R13 conference grant involves capacity building and behavioral science technology transfer stimulating adoption of effective school-based drug abuse prevention practices by the Russian prevention community. The conference agenda is designed around four thematically integrated sessions that will enable participants to plan, implement, and evaluate (P.I.E.) their own culturally sound secondary school drug prevention programs. The conference organizing team draws on over 40 years of combined expertise in conducting group-randomized prevention trials and provides a strong acumen in prevention science, dissemination, and in-service teacher training. The cross-national flavor of this conference is effectively designed to promote adoption and adaptation while at the same time addressing many of the program fidelity and implementation barriers that prevent Russian prevention experts from engaging in state-of-the-art program development and evaluation. Notably, Russian prevention practices lag considerably behind current US prevention technology and there exist few mechanisms addressing successful technology transfer for behavioral sciences. This may be unfortunate, particularly in light of recent epidemiological findings highlighting relatively high rates of alcohol and other illicit drug use among Russian youth compared to their US counterparts. The sheer absence of any sophisticated prevention information coupled with the lack of active diffusion methods may hamper Russia's attempts to control or even eliminate the problem of adolescent drug abuse. A series of focus groups with students, teachers, and administrators augments the conference agenda and collects more refined and detailed information regarding perceived barriers to effective implementation. This project has the potential to elucidate those formative mechanisms that represent potential barriers to effective diffusion of "best" prevention practices on an international scale. In concert with recognizing these barriers, a program of translational knowledge diffusion and services research can benefit tremendously Russia's fledging school-based drug prevention activities.