Effectiveness of Four Preventive Methods on Attitudes toward Drug Abuse and Mental Health among High School Boys

Individuals’ intent to drug abuse, at least in the first time, is influenced by their attitude to drugs. Attitude amendment, especially in the young ages, is one of the well-known preventive strategies from addiction. Present study examined the effects of four methods of prevention (training by life skills, films, posters & catalogs, and sending short messages) on changing attitude towards drug abuse and mental health among high school boys in Charmahal&Bakhtyari province. This research was aQuasi-experimental in which four experimentalgroupsincludedTraining by life skills, films,posters, catalogs and sending short messages and a control group were compared. About 511 students were selected of 4 training zones by a randomly multistage cluster sampling. Data analyzed by ANCOVA. Findings showed that Training by life skills and films among preventive methods had significant effects on young’s attitude towards addiction (p0.05).Training by life skills and filmsalso had an effect onmental health promotion (p>0.05). It is suggested that all of education centers for Changing student's attitude towards drug abuse and mental health promotion, use active methods like life skills and showing films and observation.