Is Web-Based Education Effective in Reducing Belief Toward Drug Abuse Among College Students?

  • سال انتشار: 1393
  • محل انتشار: فصلنامه فیزیولوژی عصبی روانشناسی، دوره: 2، شماره: 1
  • کد COI اختصاصی: JR_AJNPP-2-1_003
  • زبان مقاله: انگلیسی
  • تعداد مشاهده: 247
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نویسندگان

Farzad Jalilian

Student Research Committee, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran

Mehdi Mirzaei Alavijeh

Social Determinants of Health Research Center, Yasuj University of Medical Sciences, Yasuj, IR Iran

Mohammad Ahmadpanah

Research Center for Behavioral Disorders and Substances Abuse, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, IR Iran

Behzad Karami Matin

Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran

Mari Ataee

Substance Abuse Prevention Research Center, Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, IR Iran

Ahmad Ali Eslami

Department of Health Education and Promotion, School of Health, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran

چکیده

Background: Addiction is considered a basic structural problem in modern society, and seems to reach an epidemic scale in the last decades. Choosing a method to fulfill the intervention is an important issue to conduct educational interventions to prevent addictive behaviors. In this regard, web-based education has been widely used to introduce preventive programs to risky behaviors during recent years. Objectives: The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of web-based education intervention to decrease positive beliefs encouraging drug abuse among male medical college students. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective-retrospective intervention study that was conducted among ۷۵ male students in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, during ۲۰۱۴. t-test was used for the statistical analysis. Results: Our findings indicated that the belief toward drug abuse was significantly reduced after education (P = ۰.۰۰۳). In addition, compared pre and post-intervention scores on survey items showed a significant reduction in enjoyment, improve energy, attraction, higher strength, and higher self-esteem items after education (P < ۰.۰۵), whereas there was no significant reduction in excitement, relaxation, improved mental ability and forgetting problems after education (P > ۰.۰۵). Conclusions: Our findings showed that designing and implementing web-based educational intervention could be effective to reduce the positive beliefs toward drug abuse among college students.

کلیدواژه ها

Education, Addictive Behavior, Beliefs

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