The effectiveness of school intervention programs on tobacco use, alcohol and drug use among form two students in four secondary schools in Kota Bharu, Kelantan

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dc.contributor.authorRomli, Jaidon
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-15T07:31:34Z
dc.date.available2017-08-15T07:31:34Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.description.abstractTo assess the knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices in relation to tobacco use, alcohol and drug use among Form Two students in four secondary school in Kota Bharu, Kelantan and to assess the effectiveness of school intervention programs that use students as a peer group to educate their colleague. An intervention study was carried out among Form Two students in four secondary school (daily type) in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. The study was started in January 1999 till December 2000. Thirty-six students in S:MK and thirty-eight students in SMTM were selected to be the teachers (SHB). The intervention programs were done mainly by these trained SHB who disseminated the programs to other Form Two students in two schools over a 3 months period. Self-administered questionnaire (Bahasa Malaysia) were given to the students in four schools before (pre) on April1999 and after (post) intervention programs on October 1999. RESULTS: i) Demographic data There were 707 students who participated in this study in which 392 (55.5%) students in the intervention group and 315 (44.5%) students in the control group. 388 (54.9%) of the students were males and 319 (45.1%) were females. All the students were Malays Muslim. ii) Tobacco use (smoking) among students There were about 150 (21.2%) students who had tried smoking and 139 (19. 7°/o) students who were regular smoker. iii) Alcohol and drug use among students There were 28 (4%) students who had tried alcohol and 20 (2.9°/o) students were alcohol abusers. There were 22 (3 .1%) students who had tried drug use and 11 (1.6%) students were drug abusers. iv) The effect of intervention programs on the KASP of tobacco use After intervention programs there was significant increased in mean score and mean difference of score for knowledge of tobacco· use \\rith p value <0. 001. However there were no significant difference seen in attitudes, skills and practices of tobacco use. v) The effect of intervention programs on the KASP of alcohol and drug use After intervention programs there were significant increased in mean score and mean difference of score for knowledge, attitudes towards alcohol and drug use, and practices and of alcohol and drug use with p value <0.05. However there were no significant difference seen in skills against alcohol and drug use. CONCLUSION: . Intervention programs given by SHB in two school within 3 months period can increase the knowledge of tobacco use , but unable to change their attitudes, skills and practices. Also it can increase their knowledge of alcohol and drug uses, improved their attitudes towards alcohol and drug use but not for skills against it. Futhennore it improved their practices of alcohol and drug use.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/4371
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversiti Sains Malaysiaen_US
dc.subjectThe knowledge, attitudes, skills and practices in relation to tobacco use, alcohol and drug.en_US
dc.titleThe effectiveness of school intervention programs on tobacco use, alcohol and drug use among form two students in four secondary schools in Kota Bharu, Kelantanen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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