CAI-based Substance Prevention Intervention for High-risk Youth

• Main Authors: Tsai, Ping-chien, 蔡秉兼
• Other Authors: Lee, Ching-mei
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03175889896035782870

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 衛生教育學系 === 93 === ABSTRACT The purposes of this study were to develop the CAI-based substance prevention curriculum for high-risk youth and to evaluate the effects of the intervention on the knowledge, attitudes, self-efficacy, behavioral intention and refused skills regarding. The quasi-experimental method was used to design the study. Pre-test and post-test were used to collect data from both the experiment group and control group. The subjects of the study included sixteen junior high school high-risk students (eight students in the experiment group and eight students in the control group) in Taipei County. The students of the experiment group participated in the CAI-based substance prevention curriculum. The pre-test was administered before the intervention, with post-test after the intervention. The data collected was analyzed by the Wilcoxon Mann-Whitney Test and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test. The results were below: 1.The intervention had shown a positive effect on the knowledge substance abuse and the self-efficacy to refuse the substance among the high-risk youth. 2.The intervention had not shown a positive effect on the attitudes toward substance, behavioral intention and refused skills among the high-risk youth. 3.More than 70% of the students in the experiment group like the CAI-based substance prevention curriculum; 70% of the students believed the program was useful; more than 80% of the students were willing to use refused skills to reject addictive substances; over 60% of the students believed that the content, design, animation, and graphs of the computer programs could assist them to understand the information of addictive substances, and over 80% of the students were interested in the instruction curriculum. According to the result of this study, it is suggested that CAI-based club-drug prevention curriculum should be developed to help high-risk youth to refuse drugs. Also, it is suggested that the prevention curriculum should be well designed to be attractive to the youth. Key words: substance, drug, high-risk, youth, multimedia, prevention, Computer Assisted Instruction