Knowledge and attitudes related to drug abuse and prevention displayed by public school educators

Moreira, Fernanda Gonçalves; Silveira, Dartiu Xavier da; Andreoli, Sérgio Baxter

doi:10.1590/s1516-44462009000200003

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“…There was a significant improvement in teachers expectations that students to not go on to use substances (t=3.391, p=0.001); all teachers better understood how to develop lesson plans for drug education (t=5.886, p<0.001); and finally all teachers had marked improvement in their confidence to use norm setting in teaching (t=9.018, t<0.001). Our findings were also in line with a previous study which found that there was a significant correlation between knowledge on risk factors and the general score of attitude (r Pearson= 0.373, p < 0.001) 12 . This means that by giving specific knowledge, a person's attitude toward specific issues will be improved.…”

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The effect of electronic and printed module about drug abuse prevention on teachers’ beliefs in Indonesia

Ghozali¹,

Ahmad

Zulkefli

et al. 2020

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Background: Drug abuse is a serious global health problem. Globally, 269 million people or 5.3 percent of the population aged 15‒64 years used drugs in 2018. Evidence shows that most drug addicts start using drugs in adolescence (<15-years-old). Adolescents need role models who are able to guide them; teachers have important roles as they are primary role models for students. Therefore, teachers should have positive beliefs to guide students effectively, i.e. they should have good awareness about the threat of drug abuse and high confidence to implement required prevention. This research developed an alternative electronic delivery method of learning material to empower teachers in preventing drug abuse. This study aimed to compare the effect of the electronic and a printed teaching module on teachers’ beliefs about drug abuse prevention. Methods: 260 junior high school teachers were selected randomly. These teachers were split into two groups. Before intervention, a questionnaire was completed by both groups. The teachers then completed the learning material: electronic module in the first group and printed module in the second group. One month later, data was collected from both groups using the same questionnaire to assess the beliefs of the teachers Results: There was significant positive effect on teachers’ beliefs, both in electronic module and printed module groups. All categories of beliefs at one month after intervention were significantly higher than those at baseline (P<0.001). Based on between group comparison analysis of mean changes, perceived susceptibility in electronic module group was significantly higher than printed module group (P<0.001), while perceived severity, benefits, barriers and efficacy were not significantly different (P>0.05). Conclusions: Electronic and printed module intervention significantly increased teachers’ beliefs in drug abuse prevention. The printed module was still effective to be used as learning media, while the electronic module was an alternative with some advantages.

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The effect of electronic and printed module about drug abuse prevention on teachers’ beliefs in Indonesia

Ghozali¹,

Ahmad

Zulkefli

et al. 2020

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“…The misconception is that use of substance will help them overcoming some negative things such as stress [22]. It is important to develop suitable strategy to curb substance use among college and university students since it is at this stage where individuals are at risk of start using substance [23] We found that students we surveyed were mostly aware of the harmful effects of substance such as cancer, liver damage, and throat infections [20,24]. The college student major source of information are friends, teachers, parents, and media [4,14,24,25].…”

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“…There is trend of using substance all over the world and this trend is more concentrated among university and college level students [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11] The alarming facto is that a lot of time, college and university level students and the health professionals have poor knowledge of the negative effects of harmful effects of substance usage [12,13,14,15,16,17]. Studies conducted in this domain shows that the substance usage is facilitated because of poor knowledge about its effects [18,19,20,21] Objective The objective of the study are as follows;…”

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A Study of Drugs Use Awareness Among Students in Kenya

Ogutu

Sagwa

Evans

2020

imsrj

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The study aims to assess the substance use related literacy among the medical students in government based medical college in the Nairobi, Kenya. The methodology of the study was cross sectional based on survey method. Result states that majority of students reported there is presence of substance abusing youths are existed in their classrooms. Results also shows that there is low level of self-intake substance and increase assertiveness as found among medical students.

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“…Thus, identifying the factors associated with the implementation of drug use prevention programs is fundamental to producing knowledge that increases the prevalence of program implementation. With accurate understanding of the factors that favor the adoption of drug use prevention programs in schools, government and school administrators can formulate guidelines and provide resources to increase the availability of such programs in schools; this implementation is likely to reduce the use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs among school-attending adolescents [ 27 , 28 ]. However, studies on the prevalence of factors associated with the implementation of prevention programs do not report program quality and effectiveness; other types of studies are needed for this purpose.…”

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Drug use prevention: factors associated with program implementation in Brazilian urban schools

Pereira

Sanchez

2018

BMC Public Health

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BackgroundA school is a learning environment that contributes to the construction of personal values, beliefs, habits and lifestyles, provide convenient settings for the implementation of drug use prevention programs targeting adolescents, who are the population group at highest risk of initiating drug use. The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of factors associated with implementing drug use prevention programs in Brazilian public and private middle and high urban schools.MethodsThe present population-based cross-sectional survey was conducted with a probability sample of 1151 school administrators stratified by the 5 Brazilian administrative divisions, in 2014. A close-ended, self-reported online questionnaire was used. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with implementing drug use prevention programs in schools.ResultsA total of 51.1% of the schools had adopted drug use prevention programs. The factors associated with program implementation were as follows: belonging to the public school network; having a library; development of activities targeting sexuality; development of “Health at School Program” activities; offering extracurricular activities; and having an administrator that participated in training courses on drugs.ConclusionsThe adoption of drug use prevention practices in Brazilian schools may be expanded with greater orchestration of schools through specialized training of administrators and teachers, expansion of the School Health Program and concomitant development of the schools’ structural and curricular attributes.

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Knowledge and attitudes related to drug abuse and prevention displayed by public school educators

Abstract: (-1,93; t = 2,26; gl = 80; p < 0,05

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

The effect of electronic and printed module about drug abuse prevention on teachers’ beliefs in Indonesia

The effect of electronic and printed module about drug abuse prevention on teachers’ beliefs in Indonesia

A Study of Drugs Use Awareness Among Students in Kenya

Drug use prevention: factors associated with program implementation in Brazilian urban schools

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