Alcohol Education for Youths- A Laboratory-Based Experience

青少年酒精教育——基于实验室的经验

• 批准号: 7501690
• 负责人: DONALD A DEROSA
• 金额: $ 24.84万
• 依托单位: BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CAMPUS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-30 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7501690
• 关键词: Address; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; Adoption; Alcohol dehydrogenase; Alcohols; Biological; Biology; Brain; Class; Cognitive; Communication; Communities; Community Services; Complement; Country; Decision Making; Depth; Development; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Electronic Mail; Enzymes; Ethanol Metabolism; Face; Fostering; Hand; Health; Hour; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Laboratories; Mediating; Mentorship; Metabolism; Online Systems; Participant; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Prevention Research; Prevention education; Program Development; Public Health; Research; Resistance; Resources; Risk Behaviors; Risk-Taking; Role; Role playing therapy; Schools; Science; Scientist; Screening procedure; Standards of Weights and Measures; Structure; Students; Suggestion; Support Groups; Time; Youth; alcohol effect; alcohol prevention; base; design; drinking; experience; follow-up; high school; improved; knowledge base; normative education; peer; prevent; programs; science education; skills; sound; teacher

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There are few effective research-based alcohol and drug prevention education programs targeted to high school students that are designed to fit into the time and curricular constraints high school science educators face. This is due, in part, to a perceived lack of alignment between the content associated with alcohol prevention education and the mandated state and national science education standards. In fact, most prevention education at the high school level is provided in health classes rather than in science classes. To address the urgent need for alcohol resistance education materials that are firmly grounded in science content, this project will complement hands-on laboratory science experiences with follow-up interventions that prevention research has shown to be effective in preventing and reducing early drinking. Experts suggest that content-based curricula are most effective when complemented by peer support groups, resistance skill building, normative education, and include community involvement and media components. This project will create an inquiry-based curriculum supplement consistent with state and national science education standards that will be augmented by a peer-mediated booster program to enhance students' understanding of the biological and cognitive effects of alcohol. The materials will enable students to understand the effects of alcohol on the body and brain, with a particular emphasis on how alcohol influences adolescent risk-taking and decision-making. Further, this program will also meet teachers' need for easy implementation and will utilize instructional mentorship to promote efficient and effective professional development. The proposed curriculum supplement will employ an inquiry-based laboratory approach to explore the role of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase in the metabolism of alcohol as well as the consequences of excess alcohol on this metabolic process. The basics of brain structure and function will be explored to enable students to understand how alcohol impairs decision-making and leads to risky behavior. The lessons will incorporate a progressive role-play that ties the unit together, providing students with opportunities to use their developing evidence-based knowledge of the effects of alcohol on the body and brain to make informed decisions. An online component will include a website and follow-up email communication with students and leaders of in-school student support groups to provide booster materials and information to participants in the program. Materials will include anonymous online screenings for at-risk behavior, normative information, and suggestions for students to become involved in peer-targeted community service projects. Public Health Relevance: This project will bring together a team of high school teachers and students, scientists, and educators to develop an inquiry-based laboratory science curriculum supplement that integrates best practices from alcohol prevention research with sound science content and pedagogy. The curriculum supplement will explore the biology of alcohol as a means of teaching students both essential biology content as well as encouraging responsible decision-making. This in-class resource will be complemented by a web-supported peer-mediated booster program to provide students with a deeper understanding of the biological effects of alcohol. These materials will provide students with opportunities to use their newly acquired knowledge in decision-making contexts in the presence of their peers, thereby promoting alcohol resistance and improved public health.

描述（由申请人提供）：针对高中生的有效的基于研究的酒精和毒品预防教育计划很少，旨在适应高中科学教育者面临的时间和课程限制。这在一定程度上是由于人们认为与酒精预防教育相关的内容与法定的州和国家科学教育标准之间缺乏一致性。事实上，高中阶段的大多数预防教育是在健康课而不是科学课上提供的。为了满足对以科学内容为基础的抗酒精教育材料的迫切需求，该项目将通过预防研究证明可有效预防和减少早期饮酒的后续干预措施来补充实践实验室科学经验。专家建议，以内容为基础的课程辅以同伴支持小组、抵抗技能培养、规范教育，并包括社区参与和媒体内容，是最有效的。该项目将创建符合州和国家科学教育标准的基于探究的课程补充，并将通过同伴介导的助推计划进行增强，以增强学生对酒精的生物和认知影响的理解。这些材料将使学生了解酒精对身体和大脑的影响，特别强调酒精如何影响青少年的冒险和决策。此外，该计划还将满足教师易于实施的需求，并将利用教学指导来促进高效和有效的专业发展。拟议的课程补充将采用基于探究的实验室方法来探索乙醇脱氢酶在酒精代谢中的作用以及过量酒精对该代谢过程的影响。将探索大脑结构和功能的基础知识，使学生了解酒精如何损害决策并导致危险行为。这些课程将包含将各个单元联系在一起的渐进式角色扮演，为学生提供机会利用他们不断发展的关于酒精对身体和大脑影响的循证知识来做出明智的决定。在线部分将包括一个网站以及与学生和校内学生支持小组领导人的后续电子邮件通信，以便为该计划的参与者提供辅助材料和信息。材料将包括对高危行为的匿名在线筛查、规范信息以及对学生参与针对同侪的社区服务项目的建议。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将汇集高中教师和学生、科学家和教育工作者团队，开发基于探究的实验室科学课程补充，将酒精预防研究的最佳实践与合理的科学内容和教学法相结合。该课程补充材料将探索酒精生物学，作为向学生教授基本生物学内容并鼓励负责任的决策的一种手段。这一课堂资源将得到网络支持的同伴介导的助推计划的补充，让学生更深入地了解酒精的生物效应。这些材料将为学生提供在同龄人在场的情况下在决策环境中使用新获得的知识的机会，从而促进酒精抵抗和改善公共卫生。