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Health Education Research, Vol. 2, No. 4, 337-345, 1987
© 1987 Oxford University Press

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Health education intervention programme on non-medical use of drugs in the community – an Indian experience

D. Mohan and H.K. Sharma

Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences New Delhi-110029, India

The present communication focuses on a prospective longitudinal health education intervention programme, carried out in a vulnerable stratum of the society, with the aim of preventing the use of both licit and illicit drugs. Such empirical studies have been rarely carried out in a developing country like India. The design of the study involved pre- and post-assessments, and a control group matched on socio-economic parameters to evaluate the effectiveness of a new package intervention kit. This was developed taking into consideration the socio-cultural contexts surrounding the use of these substances. In the absence of a comparable study in this field in India, it is difficult to comment upon the results, but modest achievement can be seen from the relative decline in prevalence rates of use of alcohol and tobacco in the experimental area vis-à-vis a consistent rise in the current users of these in the control group. A number of significant findings are discussed with the aim of developing a model for further programmes of prevention of alcohol and tobacco use in this country.


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