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Prevence zneužívání návykových látek u studentů středních odborných škol a učilišť - důležitý předpoklad zdravého životního stylu

Title in English A prevention of drug abuse at the students of secondary technical and vocational schols - a important condition of healthy lifestyle
Authors

KACHLÍK Petr OURODA Stanislav ŠIMNEK Jan

Year of publication 2004
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Sborník příspvků z mezinárodní vědecké konference Firma a konkurenní prosřtedí 2004 - Změny konkurenčního prostředí ped vstupem ČR do EU. Sekce 9: Firma a sociální prostředí
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Other medical specializations
Keywords school-student-abuse-habit-forming substantion-prevention-programme-lifestyle
Description The representative descriptive study provides information about the 1997-1999 research performed in 19 secondary technical and vocational schools (agricultural, forestry, veterinary schools) in the Moravian region. More than 2,200 students and more than 200 teachers and school managers have responded in the carried out survey.Approximately 80% of respondents occasionally drink alcoholic having had their first experience at the age of 10-14; however two in ten respondents admitted their first experience with alcohol before the age 10. Regular drinking was admitted by 8% of all respondents. Approximately 20% of respondents occasionally smoke tobacco, mostly cigarettes, and the same percentage of them smoke on a daily basis. In most cases the first experimenting with smoking started at the age 10-14; about 15% of respondents had tried smoking before they were 10 years old or younger. The risks of excessive/early smoking and drinking have been widely played down both by the society and individuals. One quarter of all respondents gambled when they were 18 years old or younger, more than 10% of them admitted gambling for more than 10 times in all. One third of respondents have experimented with cannabis derivatives (marijuana, hashish) out of whom about 7% more than 10 times. 6% of respondents have encountered hallucinogens, out of whom about 1% respondents more than 10 times in a lifetime. 4.5% respondents have experimented with volatilizing substances, out of whom about 0.6% more than 10 times in their lives. The abovementioned three groups of illicit substances alongside alcohol and tobacco belong to the most favourite ones. The other drugs (pervitin, heroin, cocaine), have been experimented with in less than 0.5% of cases. All schools have elaborated basic anti-drug prevention programmes mostly involving actions aimed at increasing the students knowledge of dependence substances, and only rarely focused on positive approaches, active methods of declining offered drugs, value-orientated development, and peer programmes. Preventive actions in schools have suffered from a lack of communication between teaching staff, and between the school and local authorities, and anti-drug co-ordinators. From this comes a challenge for future efforts to implement primary anti-drug prevention into school subjects and school life.
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