Formulation and Validation of a Specialized Anti-Drug Abuse Health Education Program Aimed to Instill

Anticipatory Socialization in the Youth.

Ralph  Lago*¹ and Raymond Sucgang²

¹Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, EDSA, Barangay Pinyahan, Diliman, Quezon City, 1100 Metro Manila, Telephone/Fax: 929-1106 / 927-2899, email: ralph_t_l@yahoo.com

²Philippine Nuclear Research Institute, Diliman Quezon City

Email correspondence to: cesarsed2002@gmail.com

The paper reports the preparation and validation of an anti-drug abuse health education module aimed to enhance the basic organizational, judgemental and perfunctory skills of adolescents to make anticipatory decisions regarding use and misuse of recreational drugs and drugs of abuse. A health module on drug abuse education and prevention was prepared and validated using a pool (N=120) of Grade 6 pupils randomly selected as test respondents. The module was anchored on a continuum raging from the cognitive through the affective to the behavioural domain of health education. The validation of the module was made by using it in actual classroom courses. Pre-test and Posttest were used as the instruments of the study. Experimental group (N=60) used the module while a control group (N=60) was not given the module. The same pretest was administered as posttest to the test subjects, except that the arrangement of items in the pretest was rearranged in the posttest. The arithmetic mean of the test scores in the experimental group was statistically different (using equal variances 2-sample t-test, Stat 500 software) and higher compared to the arithmetic mean of the test scores from the control group (t= -4.5; t_crit = ± 2.34).  Conclusion was made that the module was very useful and relevant to facilitate learning in classroom instructions on drug abuse prevention education for Grade 6 pupils.

Keywords: anti drug abuse, anticipatory socialization, module