Bridging the gap between evidence and practice: A multi-perspective examination of real-world drug education

Stead, Martine; Stradling, Robert; MacNeil, Mary; MacKintosh, Anne Marie; Minty, Sarah; McDermott, L. A.; Eadie, Douglas

doi:10.1080/09687630802228341

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“…A relationship was found here and elsewhere [ 9 , 38 , 55 ] between increased alcohol misuse reported by young people and perceptions of more liberal parental attitudes towards consumption of alcohol and other substances and towards petty crime. Univariable models showed significant associations between family conflict and violence and children's drinking behaviour.…”

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“…As the child grows older and develops social contacts outside the family, friends' approval becomes an important predictor of whether, and how much, the child drinks [ 37 ]. Nevertheless, parents' influence may remain much stronger than that of friends into late adolescence, particularly where family relationships are perceived by the child as close [ 9 , 55 ]. Prevention interventions need to address the broad determinants of alcohol consumption rather than focusing narrowly on raising children's awareness or increasing their knowledge about alcohol.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the UK, measures to prevent alcohol misuse amongst children usually involve school-based education about alcohol and substance misuse [ 9 - 11 ]. There is little evidence however that programmes based solely upon classroom-based learning have been effective in changing behaviour [ 12 ].…”

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An exploratory study of the relationship between parental attitudes and behaviour and young people's consumption of alcohol

Moore

Rothwell

Segrott

2010

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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BackgroundConcern is growing regarding frequent and excessive misuse of alcohol by young people. The average age at which young people in Europe start to drink is twelve and a half, and during the last decade, the quantity of alcohol consumed by younger adolescents in the UK has increased. Families are known to play an important role in shaping young people's alcohol misuse, although family risk and protective factors associated with misuse in a UK context are in need of further investigation.MethodsThe study used a cross-sectional design, involving secondary analyses of self-completion questionnaire responses from 6,628 secondary school children (i.e. aged 11-16 years), from 12 schools within an urban location in Wales. Items relating to family functioning and perceived parental attitudes were first subjected to factor analysis. Associations of family closeness and conflict, parental monitoring and attitudes and family history of substance misuse with children's self reported alcohol consumption were examined using logistic regression analyses.ResultsApproximately three quarters of respondents reported having tried alcohol, most of whom had first tried alcohol aged 12 or under. Parental monitoring and family closeness were positively correlated with one another and were both associated with significantly lower levels of drinking behaviours. Family violence and conflict, more liberal parental attitudes towards substance use and towards alcohol and petty crime, and family history of substance misuse were positively correlated with one another and with higher levels of drinking behaviours. Parental monitoring was identified as the family functioning factor most consistently associated with drinking behaviour in multivariate analyses.ConclusionsSignificant relationships were found between young people's drinking behaviours and perceptions of risk and protective factors in the family environment. Parental monitoring was strongly associated with family closeness and appeared to form one part of a parenting style of more general communication and regulation of children's behaviour. Findings support the need for alcohol misuse prevention interventions which address risk and protective factors within the family setting. Timing of such prevention work should be related both to the development of family relationships and the age at which young people begin drinking alcohol.

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An exploratory study of the relationship between parental attitudes and behaviour and young people's consumption of alcohol

Moore

Rothwell

Segrott

2010

Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy

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“…According to the feature vector extraction results of online educational resources, a complete online educational resources dataset is established. rough data fusion algorithm [12], all the features of online educational resources in the online educational resources dataset are reconstructed [13], and then, the reconstructed online educational resources dataset is decomposed. e wavelet variance of online educational resources is calculated according to the decomposition result [14], which is used as the weight fusion wavelet coefficient to obtain the integration result of online educational resources.…”

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A Novel Method for Integration of Online Educational Resources via Teaching Information Remote Scheduling

Zhao¹

2021

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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The traditional online education resource integration technology ignores the calculation of the characteristic variance contribution rate of online educational resources, and the evaluation of educational resources is biased, which leads to the low ability of resource integration. Therefore, the online education resource integration technology based on remote scheduling of teaching information is proposed. Based on the theory of remote scheduling of teaching information, the quantitative value of online educational resources integration is obtained. By calculating the integration probability of online educational resources, the influencing factors of online educational resources in the process of integration are determined. The principle of teaching information remote scheduling is integrated into the feature vector extraction of online educational resources, and the contribution rate of feature variance of online educational resources is calculated. By extracting the number of main factors of the online educational resources feature vector, the feature vector of online educational resources is decomposed. Taking the wavelet entropy of online educational resources as the fusion weight of online educational resources, the integration result of online educational resources is obtained through wavelet transform. The experimental results show that the online education resource integration technology based on remote scheduling of teaching information has ideal application performance in integration probability, the goodness of fit, and robustness.

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“…Despite emphasis being placed on education institutions by the UK Government to provide drug education that prevents and reduces young people’s drug use, the existing evidence from systematic reviews about the effectiveness of drug education and prevention programmes in the UK, is inconclusive (Agabio et al , 2015; Coggans, 2006; Faggiano et al , 2008; Stead et al , 2010). Moreover, the long-term impact of school-based programmes has yet to be comprehensively investigated (Evans and Tseloni, 2019; Faggiano et al , 2008).…”

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University students’ experiences of recreational class a drug taking and perspectives on personal, social and health education (PSHE) drug education

Scott

Oliver

2022

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Purpose Research suggests that student drug use is substantially higher than that of the general population and while the UK Government’s current Drug Strategy emphasises the importance of PSHE in preventing young people from becoming drug users, there is a lack of research investigating the longer-term effectiveness of drug prevention education, and students’ views using qualitative methods. The purpose of this paper is to gain a holistic understanding into university students’ lived experiences of recreational class A drug taking and the drug education taught in English secondary schools. Design/methodology/approach Five interviews with university students were undertaken and thematically analysed using an ideographic case study approach alongside a qualitative content analysis of publicly available drug education resources and policy documents. Findings The normalisation of drug taking at university and social micro-pressures to assimilate group norms were key contributing factors to participants’ drug use. While the content of drug education in PSHE is grounded in theory, its implementation is not. Originality/value This study extends upon existing theories of normalisation of drug use at university through the concept of micro-pressures to offer an explanation of the process by which students assimilate group norms through the implicit threat of not fitting in.

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Bridging the gap between evidence and practice: A multi-perspective examination of real-world drug education

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An exploratory study of the relationship between parental attitudes and behaviour and young people's consumption of alcohol

An exploratory study of the relationship between parental attitudes and behaviour and young people's consumption of alcohol

A Novel Method for Integration of Online Educational Resources via Teaching Information Remote Scheduling

University students’ experiences of recreational class a drug taking and perspectives on personal, social and health education (PSHE) drug education

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