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Evaluation of an Infused Alcohol and Drug Prevention Programme
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Orsini, Muhsin Michael; Wyrick, David L.; Hansen, William B.; O'Sullivan, Rita G.; Hallfors, Denise; Steckler, Allan B.; Ridenour, Ty A. – Health Education, 2019
Purpose: Alcohol, tobacco, marijuana and other drugs use typically increases in prevalence and frequency during middle and late adolescence. School health instruction often focusses on providing facts and rarely provides tools for addressing the psychosocial risk factors needed to prevent substance use. The purpose of this paper is to report about…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Drug Education, Incidence, Prevention
Voluntary After-School Alcohol and Drug Programs for Middle School Youth: If You Build It "Right", They Will Come
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D'Amico, Elizabeth J.; Green, Harold D., Jr.; Miles, Jeremy N. V.; Zhou, Annie J.; Tucker, Joan S.; Shih, Regina A. – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Few after-school programs target alcohol and other drug (AOD) use because it is difficult to encourage a diverse group of youth to voluntarily attend. The current study describes CHOICE, a voluntary after-school program which targeted AOD use among middle school students. Over 4,000 students across eight schools completed surveys and 15%…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, School Activities, Ethnic Groups, After School Programs
Project SUCCESS' Effects on Substance Use-Related Attitudes and Behaviors: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Alternative High Schools
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Clark, Heddy Kovach; Ringwalt, Chris L.; Shamblen, Stephen R.; Hanley, Sean M. – Journal of Drug Education, 2011
Using a randomized controlled effectiveness trial, we examined the effects of Project SUCCESS on a range of secondary outcomes, including the program's mediating variables. Project SUCCESS, which is based both on the Theory of Reasoned Action and on Cognitive Behavior Theory, is a school-based substance use prevention program that targets…
Descriptors: Nontraditional Education, Control Groups, Behavior Theories, High School Students
The Development of Attitudinal Measures toward Alcohol Education in the School and in the Home.
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Finn, Peter – Journal of Drug Education, 1978
A series of alcohol education seminars for parents was conducted to develop, pretest, and test an Alcohol Education Attitudes Questionnaire, which can be used to evaluate the attitudes of parents, teachers, students, and others toward alcohol education in the school and in the home. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Measurement Instruments, Parent Attitudes, Program Descriptions
An Experimental Lesson In Drug Education
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Margolis, Joseph A. – Journal of Drug Education, 1974
This article focuses upon a method of making drug education more relevant for today's high school and college student through the use of an experimental lesson on drug taking. (Author)
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Drug Education, Experimental Psychology, Health Education
Alcohol Education Programming at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Evaluation of Results to Date.
Kraft, David P.; And Others – 1977
This report describes the Demonstration Alcohol Education Project at the University of Massachusetts. A basic assumption of the program is that most people can learn to drink sensibly. Rather than being abstinence-oriented, it seeks to foster responsible decisions about alcohol use, including comfortable drinking and non-drinking behaviors. It…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, College Students, Community Development, Decision Making