KMID : 0608420060190020089
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Journal of the Korean Society of School Health 2006 Volume.19 No. 2 p.89 ~ p.104
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Effectiveness of a Drug Misuse and Abuse Preventive Program for Middle School Students
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Lee Yoon-Young
Han Suk-Jung
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Abstract
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Purpose£º This study was to develop and verify the effects of drug misuse and abuse preventive program for middle school students.
Methods£ºThis research was a quasi experimental study under the nonequivalent control group with pretest-post test design which tried to protect children from the detrimental effect of drugs and develop a drug abuse prevention program for middle school students. Data was collected from October 10th to 21th, 2005. Subject consisted of 145 middle school students in Kyeonggi, experimental group-72, control group-73. Dick & Carey¡¯s(1996) educational system was applied, based on documents and materials online related to drug abuse in order to develop drug abuse prevention program. It¡¯s composed of 4 parts, 45 minute each. The evaluation instrument testing for the knowledge about drugs was a criterion of referenced test items modeled by Dick & Carey. The instrument for attitudes about drugs was modeled by Kim, Soyaja. A pre-test was taken on the knowledge and attitudes to drugs. The experimental students were given four sessions of drug abuse prevention education. A post-test similar to the pre-test questionnaire was given in 1 week, 4 weeks following the last session. Collected data was analyzed by using SAS 9.1 program.
Results£º Followings are the summarized result of study 1. The experimental group, that attended the drug abuse prevention program will have more knowledgable about drugs than the control group (F=27.31, p<.0001). 2. The experimental group, that attended the drug abuse prevention program displayed greater negativism attitude than the control group (F=0.58, p=0.4477).
Conclusion£ºThe results conclude that drug abuse prevention programs increase the knowledge of middle school students but doesn¡¯t change their attitude toward drugs. Therefore we need to offer them more systematic education to increase their knowledge so it will also improve their attitudes as well.
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KEYWORD
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students, drug abuse, attitude, knowledge
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