title: A community prevention model to prevent children from inhaling and ingesting harmful legal products.
abstract: Children's misuse of harmful legal products (HLPs), including inhaling or ingesting everyday household products, prescription drugs, and over-the-counter drugs, constitutes a serious health problem for American society. This article presents a community prevention model (CPM) focusing on this problem among pre and early adolescents. The model, consisting of a community mobilization strategy and environmental strategies targeting homes, schools, and retail outlets, is designed to increase community readiness and reduce the availability of HLPs, which is hypothesized to reduce HLPs use among children. The CPM is being tested in Alaskan rural communities as part of an inprogress eight-year National Institute on Drug Abuse randomized-controlled trial. This paper presents the CPM conceptual framework, describes the model, and highlights community participation, challenges, and lessons learned from implementation of the model over a 21-month period.
authors: Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation - Louisville Center, Louisville, KY 40208, USA. kwjohnson@pire.org
authors: K W
authors: KW
authors: Johnson
authors: J W
authors: JW
authors: Grube
authors: K A
authors: KA
authors: Ogilvie
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Collins
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Courser
authors: L G
authors: LG
authors: Dirks
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Ogilvie
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Driscoll
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000293:Adolescent; D000413:Alaska; D002648:Child; D019058:Community Networks / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D040261:Harm Reduction; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration; D006795:Household Products / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D004366:Nonprescription Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects; D055553:Prescription Drugs / Q000009:adverse effects; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012424:Rural Population; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*
chemical_list: D004366:Nonprescription Drugs; D055553:Prescription Drugs