title: 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.
authors.affiliation: EUSES-University of Girona.
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Hernández-Serrano
authors.affiliation: Weill Cornell Medical College.
authors.forename: Kenneth W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.affiliation: University of Alicante.
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: García-Fernández
authors.affiliation: Miguel Hernández University.
authors.forename: Mireia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Orgilés
authors.affiliation: Miguel Hernández University.
authors.forename: José P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Espada
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000329:Advertising; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006266:Health Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D033182:Intention; D007899:Leisure Activities; D008297:Male; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011639:Public Opinion; D012572:School Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D012931:Social Environment; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*