[Determining the efficacy of a high-school life-skills' programme in Huancavelica, Peru].
OBJECTIVE
Determining the efficacy of a life-skills' programme within the context of a school health promotion programme using teenagers from a high-school in the district of Huancavelica, Peru during school year 2006.


METHODS
This was non-equivalent experimental research with pre-test and post-test. The subjects consisted of 284 high school students. The variables analyzed were communication, self esteem, assertiveness, decision making, sex and age.


RESULTS
There was a significant increase in the experimental group's communication and assertiveness skills' development. There were no significant differences in decision-making and self-esteem skills.


CONCLUSIONS
The life-skills' programme was effective during one school year, especially in terms of learning and developing communication and assertiveness skills. However, self-esteem and decision-making skills did not present a statistically significance difference. Programme implementation must thus be redirected and the life-skills' programme should be implemented throughout all high-school years.
Choque-Larrauri
Raúl
R
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú. raul.choque@pucp.edu.pe
Chirinos-Cáceres
Jesús Lorenzo
JL
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010568:Peru; D015397:Program Evaluation