Fagen Michael C, Flay Brian R
Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL, USA.
Health Educ Behav. 2009 Feb;36(1):9-23. doi: 10.1177/1090198106291376.
Sustaining effective school-based prevention programs is critical to improving youth and population-based health. This article reports on results from the Aban Aya Sustainability Project, an effort to sustain a school-based prevention program that was tested via a randomized trial and targeted violence, drug use, and risky sex-related behaviors among a cohort of 5th-grade African American children followed through 10th grade. Sustainability project health educators trained parent educators to deliver the Aban Aya prevention curriculum in five schools, and project researchers studied the resultant curricular implementation and relations between the research and school-based teams. Study results showed uneven implementation across the five schools that we largely attributed to parent educator preparation and parent educator-health educator relations. These and related results are discussed to answer the study's primary research question: How viable was the sustainability project's parent-centered approach to sustaining a school-based prevention program?
维持有效的校内预防项目对于改善青少年健康及基于人群的健康状况至关重要。本文报告了阿班·阿亚可持续性项目的成果，该项目旨在维持一项校内预防项目，该项目曾通过随机试验进行测试，目标是针对一组从五年级到十年级的非裔美国儿童中的暴力、吸毒及与危险性行为相关的行为。可持续性项目的健康教育工作者培训了家长教育工作者，以便在五所学校实施阿班·阿亚预防课程，项目研究人员研究了由此产生的课程实施情况以及研究团队与校内团队之间的关系。研究结果显示，五所学校的实施情况参差不齐，我们主要将其归因于家长教育工作者的准备情况以及家长教育工作者与健康教育工作者之间的关系。本文讨论了这些及相关结果，以回答该研究的主要研究问题：以家长为中心的可持续性项目方法在维持校内预防项目方面的可行性如何？
