Public Commitment, Resistance to Advertising, and Leisure Promotion in a School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention Program: A Component Dismantling Study

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to examine the contribution of three intervention components (public commitment, resistance to advertising, and leisure promotion) on alcohol and protective variables in a school-based substance use prevention program. Participants included 480 Spanish students aged from 14 to 16 who received the Saluda prevention program in one of the following five experimental conditions: complete program, program minus public commitment, program minus resistance to advertising, program minus leisure promotion, and a waiting-list control. The students completed self-report surveys at pretest, posttest, and 6-month follow-up assessments. When excluding the healthy leisure promotion component, the Saluda program showed no loss of efficacy neither on alcohol use nor on other substance-related variables, while public commitment and resistance to advertising improved the aforementioned program's efficacy.

Efectos del programa de prevención Saluda: una revisión de estudios controlados de evaluación

“…Para el análisis de la contribución de los componentes compromiso público, resistencia a la publicidad y fomento del ocio saludable, participaron un total de 5 centros de Educación Secundaria asignados aleatoriamente a cuatro condiciones experimentales (programa Saluda completo, programa Saluda sin el componente de compromiso público, programa Saluda sin el componente de resistencia a la publicidad, programa Saluda sin el componente de fomento del ocio saludable) y un grupo control en lista de espera (Hernández, Griffin, García-Fernández, Orgilés y Espada, 2013). Se utilizó un diseño cuasi-experimental con mediciones pretest, postest y seguimiento (tras 6 meses de su aplicación).…”