Primary Prevention Research: A Preliminary Review of Program Outcome Studies
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of the Addictions
- Vol. 15 (5) , 657-676
- https://doi.org/10.3109/10826088009040046
Abstract
Drug abuse prevention program evaluations [35] employing drug-specific outcome measures were reviewed. Many of these evaluations assessed the effects of new generation prevention strategies: affective, peer-oriented and multidimensional approaches. Only 14 studies evaluated purely informational programs. Evaluations were analyzed to ascertain characteristics of the programs under study, characteristics of the research designs and patterns among findings. This review provides some evidence that the newer prevention strategies may produce more positive and fewer negative outcomes than did older drug information approaches. Over 70% of the programs using the newer strategies produced some positive effects; only 29% showed negative effects. In contrast, 46% of informational programs showed positive effects: 46% showed negative effects. These findings must be approached with great caution, since the research was frequently scientifically inadequate and since rigor of research was negatively correlated with intensity and duration of program services for humans.This publication has 16 references indexed in Scilit:
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