Adolescent substance abuse prevention programs: Theories, models, and research in the encouraging 80's

Norman, Elaine; Turner, Sandra G.

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“…Today, interactive programs often include components that are aimed at influencing social-psychological factors such as social skills, communication skills, self-esteem, decision-making competencies, and group dynamics Botvin et al, 1995;Mauss et al, 1988;Norman et al, 1993;Paglia et al, 1998;Rhodes et al, 1988;Tobler, 1997).…”

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Perspectives on Preventing Adolescent Substance Use and Misuse

Lilja

Larsson

Wilhelmsen

et al. 2003

Substance Use & Misuse

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This article reviews different theoretical models concerning the prevention of substance use by adolescents. The models differ in their concepts and in their assumptions. Because the models describe different parts of the substance use problem, they can be combined to provide the basis for the design of information-based prevention programs. For example, in order to understand adolescent development, identity models or attachment models can be used. To understand adolescent norm changes, cultural models or peer system models can be applied. To understand how adolescents cope in specific situations where alcohol and other drugs are available, models that include concepts like self-esteem, drug expectations, existing norms, and perceived control of substance use can be employed. All preventive programs need to be pretested as well as evaluated both during and postprogram. The models mentioned may be used as frameworks in an evaluation, i.e., the variables and the assumptions in the models can be used as hypotheses to establish whether the desired results are achieved as a consequence of the selected strategies and techniques in the preventive program. A greater knowledge of the social and psychological processes preventing substance use will put us in a better position to influence and understand adolescent substance use in the future.

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Perspectives on Preventing Adolescent Substance Use and Misuse

Lilja

Larsson

Wilhelmsen

et al. 2003

Substance Use & Misuse

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“…A Swedish study, using a quasi‐experimental design, demonstrated that the Örebro Prevention Program (ÖPP), stimulating parents to maintain strict attitudes towards their children's alcohol use, is effective in reducing underage drunkenness [13]. In addition, reviews [7,14,15] suggest that interventions offered jointly to students and their parents are most effective in preventing alcohol use in adolescents. Thus, the effectiveness of ÖPP might be enhanced by combining it with an intervention targeting the students.…”

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Preventing heavy alcohol use in adolescents (PAS): cluster randomized trial of a parent and student intervention offered separately and simultaneously

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AimsTo evaluate the effectiveness of two preventive interventions to reduce heavy drinking in first-and second-year high school students. Design and setting Cluster randomized controlled trial using four conditions for comparing two active interventions with a control group from 152 classes of 19 high schools in the Netherlands. Participants A total of 3490 first-year high school students (mean 12.68 years, SD = 0.51) and their parents. Intervention conditions (i) Parent intervention (modelled on the Swedish Örebro Prevention Program) aimed at encouraging parental rule-setting concerning their children's alcohol consumption; (ii) student intervention consisting of four digital lessons based on the principles of the theory of planned behaviour and social cognitive theory; (iii) interventions 1 and 2 combined; and (iv) the regular curriculum as control condition. Main outcome measures Incidence of (heavy) weekly alcohol use and frequency of monthly drinking at 10 and 22 months after baseline measurement. Findings A total of 2937 students were eligible for analyses in this study. At first follow-up, only the combined student-parent intervention showed substantial and statistically significant effects on heavy weekly drinking, weekly drinking and frequency of drinking. At second follow-up these results were replicated, except for the effects of the combined intervention on heavy weekly drinking. These findings were consistent across intention-to-treat and completers-only analyses.Conclusions Results suggest that adolescents as well as their parents should be targeted in order to delay the onset of drinking, preferably prior to onset of weekly drinking.

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“…En general, la evidencia empírica concluye que los programas de prevención escolar son eficaces para prevenir y/o reducir el consumo de sustancias psicoactivas entre adolescentes (Botvin, 1990;Botvin et al, 1995;Dryfoos, 1990;Durlak, 1995;Ennett et al, 1994;Flay, 1986;Gerstein y Green, 1993;Glasgow, Lichtenstein y Marcus, 2003;Gorman, 1995;Gottfredson, 1998;Gottfredson, 2001;Gottfredson, Wilson y Najaka, 2001;Green y Glasgow, 2006;Hansen, 1992;Hansen y O'Malley, 1996;Institute of Medicine, 1994;Norman y Turner, 1993;Rohrbach, Dent, Skara y Sussman, 2007Tobler, 1992Tobler y Stratton, 1997;Tobler, et. al., 2000).…”

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Characteristics of effective programs for school-based prevention of drug use / Características de los programas eficaces para la prevención escolar del consumo de drogas

Pertusa

Castillo

Espada

2009

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reSumenEn las últimas dos décadas, muchos profesionales han manifestado la necesidad de hacer de la prevención una disciplina científica, en la que se trabaje en base a la evidencia.objetiva, sin dejar lugar a prácticas intuitivas y/o basadas simplemente en la buena voluntad. Como resultado, hoy disponemos de una sólida base empírica acerca de las estrategias escolares que obtienen resultados en el consumo y las que no, e incluso las que resultan contrapreventivas. Sin embargo, al revisar las investigaciones desarrolladas en esta área, se constata una amplia variabilidad en los tamaños de los efectos de las intervenciones, lo que nos indica la necesidad de comprobar qué características de los programas preventivos son las responsables de esta variabilidad. El objetivo del estudio es describir las características de las intervenciones más efectivas, desarrolladas en el ámbito escolar. Para ello se sintetizan los resultados de cuatro revisiones. de.revisiones que han compendiado de forma sistematizada la evidencia arrojada por diversos estudios de revisiones y meta-análisis.Palabras clave: Prevención, programas escolares, drogas de abuso, revisión, evaluación, eficacia.

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Adolescent substance abuse prevention programs: Theories, models, and research in the encouraging 80's

Cited by 32 publications

References 45 publications

Perspectives on Preventing Adolescent Substance Use and Misuse

Perspectives on Preventing Adolescent Substance Use and Misuse

Preventing heavy alcohol use in adolescents (PAS): cluster randomized trial of a parent and student intervention offered separately and simultaneously

Characteristics of effective programs for school-based prevention of drug use / Características de los programas eficaces para la prevención escolar del consumo de drogas

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