Drug use prevention: factors associated with program implementation in Brazilian urban schools
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2018
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Pereira, Ana Paula Dias 
Sanchez, Zila van der Meer
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Background: A school is a learning environment that contributes to the construction of personal values, beliefs, habits and lifestyles, provide convenient settings for the implementation of drug use prevention programs targeting adolescents, who are the population group at highest risk of initiating drug use. The objective of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of factors associated with implementing drug use prevention programs in Brazilian public and private middle and high urban schools. Methods: The present population-based cross-sectional survey was conducted with a probability sample of 1151 school administrators stratified by the 5 Brazilian administrative divisions, in 2014. A close-ended, self-reported online questionnaire was used. Logistic regression analysis was used to identify factors associated with implementing drug use prevention programs in schools. Results: A total of 51.1% of the schools had adopted drug use prevention programs. The factors associated with program implementation were as follows: belonging to the public school network
having a library
development of activities targeting sexuality
development of "Health at School Program" activities
offering extracurricular activities
and having an administrator that participated in training courses on drugs. Conclusions: The adoption of drug use prevention practices in Brazilian schools may be expanded with greater orchestration of schools through specialized training of administrators and teachers, expansion of the School Health Program and concomitant development of the schools' structural and curricular attributes.
having a library
development of activities targeting sexuality
development of "Health at School Program" activities
offering extracurricular activities
and having an administrator that participated in training courses on drugs. Conclusions: The adoption of drug use prevention practices in Brazilian schools may be expanded with greater orchestration of schools through specialized training of administrators and teachers, expansion of the School Health Program and concomitant development of the schools' structural and curricular attributes.
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Bmc Public Health. London, v. 18, 2018.