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Health Education & Behavior, Vol. 24, No. 5, 568-586 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/109019819702400505

Jump Start: A Targeted Substance Abuse Prevention Program

Nancy Grant Harrington, PhD

Department of Communication and Center for Prevention Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington

Lewis Donohew, PhD

Department of Communication and Center for Prevention Research, University of Kentucky, Lexington

A substance abuse prevention and life skills program for economically disadvantaged, high sensation seeking African American teens was developed and tested in Cincinnati, Ohio. Formative research was conducted to determine program content and format. Over two implementations, 289 individuals in the target population were recruited as participants for the field test of the program. For the first implementation, participants were randomly selected from the city's summer youth employment program. For the second, a media campaign was designed to recruit participants. Process evaluation indicated that participants evaluated the program extremely positively. Outcome evaluation indicated that significant pretest differences between high and low sensation seekers were neutralized for liquor and marijuana in both years of the program and for attitude toward drugs in the first year of the program. These results suggest that sensation seeking is a useful message design and audience-targeting variable for substance abuse prevention program design. Implications and recommendations for future research are discussed.


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