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Merrill, Ray M.; Hanson, Carl L. – Health Education, 2022
Purpose: This study is a formative evaluation of an adolescent online e-cigarette prevention program (Clearing the Vapor) giving attention to identifying higher risk adolescent populations, confirming the theory of change, and assessing short-term outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The evaluation was conducted using online pre-test and…
Descriptors: Smoking, Health Behavior, Risk, Adolescents
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Kozhuharova, Penka Petkova – Practice and Theory in Systems of Education, 2015
The subject of the research is the planning, implementation and evaluation of the program about prevention of the use of psychoactive substances among students 5-7 grade. The study was conducted by survey method with 314 teachers who teach in twenty-six schools. The qualification of the teachers to work with the program about prevention was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6
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Glied, Sherry; Oellerich, Don – Future of Children, 2014
Parents' health and children's health are closely intertwined--healthier parents have healthier children, and vice versa. Genetics accounts for some of this relationship, but much of it can be traced to environment and behavior, and the environmental and behavioral risk factors for poor health disproportionately affect families living in…
Descriptors: Health Programs, Family Programs, Child Health, Barriers
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Brown, Joel H.; Caston, Marianne D'Emidio – Evaluation Review, 1995
A student-centered evaluation of the California Drug, Alcohol, and Tobacco Education (DATE) program shows how a state policy directed toward students at risk influences program directions and affects at-risk and thriving students. Reasons to question the validity of the risk factor model as a prevention tool are discussed. (SLD)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Drinking, Drug Education, Educational Policy
Tucker, Joan S.; Ellickson, Phyllis L.; Klein, David J. – RAND Corporation, 2004
Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs are in the nation's schools, sidetracking kids from getting a good education and from building a solid foundation for a productive, healthy life. The good news is that a large-scale evaluation of Project ALERT, the widely used middle-school drug prevention program developed by the RAND Corporation, shows that it…
Descriptors: Prevention, Drug Education, Program Evaluation, Middle Schools
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Stanton, Warren R.; Smith, Katrina M. – Journal of Adolescence, 2002
Rates of adolescent smoking appear to be on the increase, with a number of authors documenting increases in the 1990's. However, the issue of prevention rather than cessation has received greater attention in tobacco control programmes among youth. This review provides details of published school based and other tobacco cessation programmes for…
Descriptors: Smoking, Risk, Adolescents, Health Promotion