title: School-as-community activity selection at continuation high schools.
abstract: This paper describes two studies which together provide an example of an empirically based "school-as-community" development process used in a large-scale school-based drug prevention trial among youth at continuation high schools in California. First, we generated a list of schools' current community involvement from 96 school personnel and 144 students from 20 continuation high schools. Second, we reduced the number of activities indicated, with some discussion, to a list of 12 populars. Then, we administered this list to a total of 388 students from six continuation high schools who provided perceived quality ratings. We generated six categories of activities from the results of these two studies. These studies reveal a means to determine activities likely to be completed by this school system and a means to limit the variability of activities which could be manipulated in an experimental trial involving a school-as-community component.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sussman
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Craig
authors.forename: T R
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: E R
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Galaif
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002140:California; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010934:Planning Techniques; D016730:Program Development / Q000379:methods*; D012574:Schools / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012939:Social Planning; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*