Community-based Prevention of Substance Abuse in the Youth: A Case Study of Thubphueng, Sukhothai

Authors

  • Panuwat Panket
  • Narongsak Noosorn

Keywords:

promotion, prevention, community, substance abused, the youths

Abstract

Substance abuse is an important and urgent problem because it has spread to the youths, younger and younger. The sustainable prevention should be base on community participation. In this study, the participatory approach was applied for developing a learning process between the researchers and villagers. The objectives were to study the background of community and the youths as inputs, and to study the process and results of the community-based prevention of substance abuse in the youths. The field of the study was Thubphueng community, Srisamrong district, Sukhothai. The study was comprised of four processes. The first was making a community agreement by

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Panket P, Noosorn N. Community-based Prevention of Substance Abuse in the Youth: A Case Study of Thubphueng, Sukhothai. J Ment Health Thai [internet]. 2016 Mar. 15 [cited 2026 Jan. 3];13(3):183-91. available from: https://he01.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jmht/article/view/51815

Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2005)

Section

Miscellany

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