Hawthorne G, Garrard J, Dunt D
National Centre for Health Program Evaluation, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Addiction. 1995 Feb;90(2):205-15. doi: 10.1046/j.1360-0443.1995.9022056.x.
The Life Education organization offers a drug education programme to an estimated one million Australian primary schoolchildren. It is believed the programme delays experimentation with or initiation into smoking, alcohol use and the taking of analgesics. This study examined the short-term public health effects on 3000 11- and 12-year-old students, of whom 1700 were exposed to 5 consecutive years of the programme. The other 1300 students were not exposed to the programme. After controlling for the known predictors of social drug use there was no evidence that Life Education students, when compared with students receiving conventional school-based drug education, were less likely to have smoked, were less likely to have drunk or were less likely to have used analgesics. Indeed, the evidence suggested that Life Education-students were slightly more likely to use these substances, and that the programme had different effects on boys' and girls' drug use. Given that these findings are consistent with previous research evaluating similar drug education programmes, it is hypothesized they are most likely to do with the design of the programme itself.
生命教育组织为大约100万澳大利亚小学生提供毒品教育项目。据信该项目会推迟学生尝试吸烟、饮酒和服用镇痛药的时间或首次进行这些行为的时间。本研究调查了该项目对3000名11至12岁学生的短期公共卫生影响，其中1700名学生连续5年参与该项目，另外1300名学生未参与该项目。在控制了已知的社会毒品使用预测因素后，没有证据表明参与生命教育项目的学生与接受传统校内毒品教育的学生相比，吸烟、饮酒或使用镇痛药的可能性更低。事实上，有证据表明参与生命教育项目的学生使用这些物质的可能性略高，并且该项目对男孩和女孩的毒品使用有不同影响。鉴于这些发现与之前评估类似毒品教育项目的研究一致，据推测这很可能与项目本身的设计有关。
