The Effect of Drinking Prevention Program on Drinking Refusal Self-efficacy and Alcohol Expectancy of Vocational High School Students |
Kyung Mi Lim1, Soo Jin Kim2 |
1St. John Hospital 2Department of Xursing, Chonnam National University Medical School, Chonnam National University Research Institute of Nursing Science. |
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Abstract |
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of drinking prevention program for vocational high school students and to suggest the effective nursing intervention useful for the prevention of drinking problem for adolescents.
The design of this study was nonequivalent control group pre-post test design.
The total number of subjects of this study were 45, vocational high school male students in G city, among which 22 were assigned for the experimental group and 23 were in the control group.
The drinking prevention program in this study was composed of 6 sessions utilizing self-efficacy theory and expectancy theory based on the social-leaning theory. The instruments of this study were the scale of drinking refusal self-efficacy and alcohol expectancy.
The data were collected from September 10 to November 16. 2001, and analized by x2
-test, wilcoxon rank sums test and fisher's exact test The result of this study were as follows;
1. Hypotheses 1 that “the score of the drinking refusal self-efficacy in the experimental group was higher than that of the control group” was supported(z = 2.45, p-.014).
2. Hypotheses 2 that “the score of the alcohol expectancy in the experimental group was lower than that of the control group" was supported(z = -3.05. p = .002).
3. influence of the those of drinking drinking
Drinking prevention program had an reducing drinking behavior with of of
on experimental group compared the control gioup(frequency z2 = 24.86, p = .000, amount z2 -12.66. p = ,001).
Based on the result, the alcohol prevention program for vocational high school students was effective in promotion of drinking refusal self-efficacy and reduction alcohol expectancy.
For the adolescents who have high curiosity on alcohol to have healthier life, drinking prevention program including concrete informations and skills for alcohol should be systematically carried out according to the development progress. drinking or not. and degree of drinking problems of adolescents. |
Key Words:
Drinking prevention program; Vocational high school students; Drinking refusal self-efficacy; Alcohol expectancy |
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