DEVELOPMENT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE PREVENTION MODEL FOR ADOLESCENTS WITH PARTICIPATION OF NETWORK PARTNERS IN THE 8th REGIONAL HEALTH

Abstract

          The objectives of this research article were to study the situations, develop and evaluate the model for preventing adolescent substance abuse with an association of network partners in the 8^th regional health. This research and development study was divided into three phases. First Phase: examine the situation of adolescent substance abuse prevention. The samples consisted of 216 adolescents and 15 members from network partnerships. Second Phase: develop the model by using activities to promote knowledge and skill on substance abuse prevention. Third Phase: evaluate the model using mean, percentage, standard deviation, Repeated ANOVA, and MANOVA. Data were collected using questionnaires constructed by the researcher and the experts approved with reliability score of 0.77, and IOC reviewed by the experts with a score of 0.70. The results showed that the adolescents’ knowledge, decision making skills, problem - solving skills, advanced refusal skills, and self - esteem were at NOT SURE level. Substance abuse prevention behaviors were at the MEDIUM level. The substance abuse prevention model for adolescents with participation of networking partnership consisted of three factors as follows: 1) principle and concept of McKinsey’s 7S Framework; 7S-NIP, 2) using three activity packages, and 3) the networking partnership planning for eliminating the places for an unlawful purpose, organizing exchanging experiences forum and the stage for master youth contest. After the 6th and 8th week of experiment, adolescents' substance abuse knowledge scores were higher. The adolescents’ decision - making skills, problem - solving skills, advanced refusal skills, and self - esteem scores were high and statistically significant at the 0.05 level. According to McKinsey’s 7S Framework; 7S-NIP, the substance abuse prevention model will be successful when adolescents' self-esteem should be developed and the true association of networking partnership.