Yeni Hendriani. Effects of life skills based drug education on knowledge about drug use, self-esteem, and assertiveness skills among Indonesian adolescents at risk. Master's Degree(Mental Health and Psychiatric Nursing). Burapha University. Library.. : Burapha University, 2549.
Effects of life skills based drug education on knowledge about drug use, self-esteem, and assertiveness skills among Indonesian adolescents at risk
Abstract:
The purposes of this quasi-experimental study was to test the effect of Life Skills based Drug Education (LSE) on knowledge about drug use, self-esteem, and assertiveness among Indonesian high school students. All teen participants were recruited from two high schools located in Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. They were identified as adolescents at risk based on the following criteria: reported poor achievement at school in the last semester, never used any kinds of illegal drugs, and were members of low-income families. To develop strategies for preventing drug use among Indonesian adolescents, 30 of the participants were assigned to an experimental group, and 30 others to a control group. The participants in the experimetal group participated in an LSE program for 6 weeks (10 sessions). The questionnaires assessing knowledge about drug use, self-esteem, and assertiveness were administered to these participants before and then again after they completed the LSE program. Descriptive statistics, paired t-test, and independent t-test were performed to analyze data.The results revealed that there was a significant in crease in knowledge about drug use, self-esteem, and assertiveness skills in the experimental group after completion of the intervention compared to before the intervention period. When a comparison between the experimental and control group at posttest was made, it was found that participants in the experimental group had significantly more improvement in posttest minus pretest mean scores of knowledge about drug use as well as assertiveness (p<.05). When the groups were compared in terms of increases in self-esteem, however, no statistically significant differences were found.Results from this study shed additional light on the possibility of applying LSE in order to reinforce findings from previous studies. Continuing assessment of the program implementation and fidelity data will us to determine more specifically how these effects were produced, while additional data collection should afford opportunities to see whether the effects will be sustained over time.