Public commitment, resistance to advertising, and leisure promotion in a school-based drug abuse prevention program: a component dismantling study

J Drug Educ. 2013;43(4):331-51. doi: 10.2190/DE.43.4.c.

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.

Publication types

  • Randomized Controlled Trial

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Advertising*
  • Alcoholism / prevention & control
  • Female
  • Health Education / organization & administration*
  • Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
  • Humans
  • Intention
  • Leisure Activities*
  • Male
  • Program Evaluation
  • Public Opinion*
  • School Health Services / organization & administration*
  • Social Environment
  • Substance-Related Disorders / prevention & control*