The evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention programme

dc.contributor.advisorVisser, M.J. (Maretha Johanna)en
dc.contributor.emailanzeliai@hotmail.comen
dc.contributor.postgraduateSchonfeldt, Anzel Elizabethen
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-07T14:53:30Z
dc.date.available2008-11-03en
dc.date.available2013-09-07T14:53:30Z
dc.date.created2008-09-05en
dc.date.issued2008-11-03en
dc.date.submitted2008-10-29en
dc.descriptionDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2008.en
dc.description.abstractThis research report presents the findings of an evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention programme presented as part of Project Awareness. The programme was presented as a one-day intervention for grade ten learners in eleven schools in Tshwane. The prevention program taught substance abuse refusal skills, anti-substance norms, personal self-management skills, and general social skills in an effort to provide students with skills and information for resisting substance offers, to decrease motivations to use substances, and decrease vulnerability to substance use social influences. The study evaluated this school-based substance abuse prevention intervention in a sample of learners (N=300) in six of the eleven schools. Measures were obtained on a behavioural survey to ascertain whether any knowledge, behaviour or attitude change occurred between the pre-intervention and post-intervention phases. In addition, focus group data and observational measures were implemented to determine how the learners experienced the programme and whether the programme was effective in capturing the attention of the learners. Results indicated that, from learners perceptions of the programme, the intervention seems to have had a positive impact on substance abuse prevention, but not on changing the behaviour of learners already engaging in substance abuse. The results from the behavioural survey indicated some change in learner attitudes to some degree, but not behavioural change. Suggestions for the improvement of the programme were made throughout the report, and the observational measures specifically indicated that the more practical oriented tasks were more efficient in capturing the attention of learners. It is concluded that although the programme certainly had room for improvement, that the programme did indeed address relevant issues. The program also had a direct positive effect on several cognitive, attitudinal, and personality variables believed to play a role in adolescent substance use.en
dc.description.availabilityunrestricteden
dc.description.departmentPsychologyen
dc.identifier.citationa 2007en
dc.identifier.otherE1180/gmen
dc.identifier.upetdurlhttp://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-10292008-170558/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/29111
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoriaen_ZA
dc.rights© University of Pretoria 2007 E1180/en
dc.subjectPreventionen
dc.subjectProgramme evaluationen
dc.subjectAdolescenten
dc.subjectInterventionen
dc.subjectFocused school interventionen
dc.subjectKirkpatrick modelen
dc.subjectPrevention programmeen
dc.subjectDrug abuseen
dc.subjectTheory of planned behaviouren
dc.subjectTheory of reasoned actionen
dc.subjectHealth belief modelen
dc.subjectSubstance abuseen
dc.subjectSchool-baseden
dc.subjectEvaluationen
dc.subjectUCTDen_US
dc.titleThe evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention programmeen
dc.typeDissertationen

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