Health Promotion Efforts in an Isolated Hispanic Community [microform] : The Mora Substance Abuse Prevention Project / Elias J. Duryea and Others
- Bib ID:
- 5470717
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Duryea, Elias J
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED273426
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1986
- 24 p.
- Summary:
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An alcohol and drug use education program was developed by teachers and administrators in Mora, a small, isolated Hispanic community in northern New Mexico, in cooperation with the town's public health nurses and a University of New Mexico research team. Pre- and posttests were given to 150 students in grades 7-9 in the Mora Public Schools to assess: behavioral intent for accompanying drinking drivers and experimenting with pills, knowledge of alcoholic content of beverages, perceived impairment of driving ability from marijuana smoking, frequency of drinking to excess, and frequency of accompanying drinking drivers. Teachers kept logs of drug/alcohol related incidents. Treatment exercises were given to students after teachers received inservice training in their use. Health promoting outcomes included favorable changes in behavioral intent for riding with impaired drivers. Interviews with teachers and officials suggested that health behavior variables such as peer pressure were not sufficiently impacted by treatment exercises. Previous attempts by health educators had failed in this close-knit, culturally isolated town; but, this program was accepted because the research team observed cultural strictures, was introduced by an accepted individual, and prompted community responsibility for resolving the problem. Appended tables include pre- and posttest results, sample reporting forms, and teacher reports of substance misuse incidents. (LFL)
- Notes:
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- ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Health Education (Cincinnati, OH, April 11, 1986).
- Educational level discussed: Secondary Education.
- Practitioners.
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- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Alcohol Education
- Community Cooperation
- Community Involvement
- Cultural Isolation
- Drinking
- Drug Education
- Drug Use
- Ethnic Groups
- Health Education
- Hispanic Americans
- Marijuana
- Rural Areas
- Rural Schools
- Secondary Education
- Secondary School Students
- Small Schools
- Health Promotion New Mexico (Mora County)
- Isolation (Geographic) Substance Abuse
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- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1986
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