SS 16.00-17.30 Special sessions
INTERVENTION PROGRAMME FOR PREVENTING TOBACCO SMOKING FOR OLDER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS
- AUTHORS: J Szymborski, Z Juczynski, W Zatonski, N Oginska-Bulik
- INSTITUTION: National Research Institute and Child, Warsaw, Poland
This intervention programme for preventing tobacco smoking is meant for older elementary school students. In this period, the number of children who try smoking for the first time rises dramatically. Taking into consideration the specific conditions of smoking among students of older grades in elementary school, the authors concentrate of the psycho-social mechanisms moulding attitudes and behaviour. Workshops were prepared in a form allowing them to be lead by teachers, pedagogues, psychologists, or health educators. Workshops should be lead in 2-person groups, with the possibility that one person is a student from the class, chosen or agreed upon by the class. The workshops should take place as a block of classes, once a week in the same place and time. Before beginning the workshops, the children's parents should be given basic information about the programme.
The purpose of the first workshop "Let's Get to know Each Other" is group integration, emergence of leaders, justifying and reinforcing attitudes against smoking. The second workshop "Body laboratory" is aimed at showing the functioning of the human organism and its needs, and most of all the necessity of securing suitable proper nourishment and clean air. The third workshop's aim "Learn to Say No" is relaying information about assertive behaviour, beaming to recognize behaviour, and becoming aware of mechanisms of group pressure along with learning ways of saying no. The fourth workshop "Find the right solution" teaches to recognize emotions felt in difficult situations, becoming aware of mechanisms of conflict and effects of not coping with difficult situations and developing coping skills with problems.
The last workshop "Believe in yourself" is intended to consolidate self esteem, encourage positive thinking about oneself, and develop important interpersonal skills.
Smoke Free Europe Conference Abstracts - 19 SEP 1996
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