Choque-Larrauri Raúl, Chirinos-Cáceres Jesús Lorenzo
Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima, Perú.
Rev Salud Publica (Bogota). 2009 Mar-Apr;11(2):169-81. doi: 10.1590/s0124-00642009000200002.
Determining the efficacy of a life-skills' programme within the context of a school health promotion programme using teenagers from a high-school in the district of Huancavelica, Peru during school year 2006.
This was non-equivalent experimental research with pre-test and post-test. The subjects consisted of 284 high school students. The variables analyzed were communication, self esteem, assertiveness, decision making, sex and age.
There was a significant increase in the experimental group's communication and assertiveness skills' development. There were no significant differences in decision-making and self-esteem skills.
The life-skills' programme was effective during one school year, especially in terms of learning and developing communication and assertiveness skills. However, self-esteem and decision-making skills did not present a statistically significance difference. Programme implementation must thus be redirected and the life-skills' programme should be implemented throughout all high-school years.
