Abstract
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of an alcohol-related harm prevention program on out-of-school adolescent girls. This was a quasi-experimental study employing a randomized controlled non-synchronized design. There were 23 and 22 participants in the experimental and control groups, respectively. The program comprised three sessions aiming to motivate voluntary changes and promote autonomous decision-making. The experimental group showed significantly higher alcohol-related knowledge and substantially lower alcohol outcome expectancy than the control group. No significant differences emerged from drinking refusal, self-efficacy, or alcohol abstinence intention. This program could improve alcohol-related knowledge and reduce out-of-school adolescent girls’ positive alcohol outcome expectancy.
Highlights
A non-equivalent control group pretest–post-test non-synchronized design was used to investigate the effects of an alcohol-related harm prevention program in out-of-school female adolescents (Table 1)
This study aimed to assess the effects of an alcohol-related harm prevention program for out-of-school female adolescents who resided in a protection and treatment facility
The experimental group showed an increased alcohol-related knowledge score (p = 0.037) and a reduced alcohol outcome expectancy score (p = 0.046). This change was significantly greater than that of the control group, which showed that the alcoholrelated harm prevention program improved alcohol-related knowledge and converted individuals’ positive expectations of alcohol to negative ones. This result was consistent with previous findings that demonstrated that a drinking prevention program significantly improved alcohol-related knowledge in female middle school students and female vocational high school students [25] and that such programs significantly transformed positive expectations of drinking into negative ones [10,26]
Summary
Res. Public Health 2021, According to the Korea Health Statistics [1], the percentage of high-risk drinkers in South Korea has been consistently rising every year since 2013 and reached 14.2% in. Drinking problems among adolescent girls have been exacerbated in the recent past. Among female middle and high school students who drink alcohol, 49.9% showed a risk of problematic drinking behaviors, which indicated a moderate or higher than average amount of drinking per seating in the past 30 days
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