ผลของโปรแกรมเพิ่มทักษะชีวิตในการป้องกันยาเสพติด ในวัยรุ่นตอนต้น
Efficacy of Life Skill Improvement Program on Preventing Drug Abuse in Early Teens
Keywords:
adolescence, drug abuse, life skillsAbstract
ABSTRACT
Early adolescence is a transitional period for involving in health-risk behaviors. Drug addiction is one of the serious health-risk behaviors that have impacts on adolescence. The purpose of this research was to study the efficacy of life skill improvement program on improving self-esteem, interpersonal relationship and communication skills and decision-making skill of early teens. One group pretest-posttest pre-experimental design was conducted with 19 adolescents aged 12-14 years old. The purposive sampling was used to select adolescents participating in the 12 – hour life skill improvement program. The program composed of 4 sessions: session 1 had 4 activities; session 2 had 3 activities; session 3 had 2 activities and session 4 had 3 activities. The activities in four sessions consisted of three life skill components: self-esteem, interpersonal relationship and communication skills and decision-making skill regarding drug abuse. The questionnaires were used for data collection. Data were analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation and Paired t-test statistics.
The results showed that the self-esteem scores were at high level and significantly improved after (Mean=4.04, SD=0.47) intervention compared to before (Mean=3.86, SD=0.32) intervention; t (18) = -2.36, p<.05 The interpersonal relationship and communication skills were at high level both before (Mean=1.35, SD=0.37) and after (Mean=1.45, SD=0.41) intervention, while the decision-making skill were at high level both before (Mean=1.59, SD=0.36) and after (Mean=1.63, SD=0.27) intervention. However, there was no significant difference between before and after intervention for the interpersonal relationship and communication skills and the decision-making skill.
Conclusion, the program shows an efficacy on enhancing adolescents’ self-esteem to prevent drug abuse. To improve the effectiveness of the program, employing more interactive techniques with enjoyable activities could increases active involvement for adolescence that might help to develop the interpersonal relationship and communication skills and the decision-making skill
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