Development and immediate impact of a self-instruction curriculum for an adolescent indicated drug abuse prevention trial.
This article describes the development and immediate impact of a self-instruction indicated drug abuse prevention program, Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND). Self-instruction programming often is used to help youth that are at high risk for dropout and drug abuse to complete their high school education, and is a method of choice among educators at alternative high schools. This article describes the justification for the self-instruction program, keys to good programmed self-learning, and how a 12-session health educator delivered program was converted to a self-instruction format. In addition, the immediate impact of a 3-group experimental trial is presented. Health educator led, self-instruction, and standard care control conditions are compared on knowledge change, and the two program conditions are compared on process ratings. Self-instruction programming can be successfully adapted from a health educator-led format, though the lack of student group interaction in this modality may limit its receptivity among students.
Sussman
Steve
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University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Dent
Clyde W
CW
Craig
Sande
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Ritt-Olsen
Anamara
A
McCuller
William J
WJ
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003479:Curriculum; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016730:Program Development; D011380:Programmed Instructions as Topic; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*