School-Based Drug Abuse Prevention with Inner-City Minority Youth
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse
- Vol. 6 (1) , 5-19
- https://doi.org/10.1300/j029v06n01_02
Abstract
SUMMARY This study tested the effectiveness of a drag abuse prevention intervention with a predominantly minority sample of seventh-grade students (N = 721) in 7 urban schools in New York City. The drag abuse prevention curriculum teaches social resistance skills within the context of a broader intervention promoting general personal and social competence and implemented by regular classroom teachers. Results indicated that this approach was effective on several behavioral measures of current drug use including measures of polydrag use and on intention measures relevant to future drag use. Furthermore, there was some evidence for factors presumed to mediate the effects of this type of intervention (normative expectations and refusal skills). The significance of these findings is that they provide farther support for the generalizability to a minority inner-city adolescent population of an approach previously found to be effective with white middle-class adolescent populations. In addition, this is the fir...Keywords
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