Effectiveness of Activities of Community-Oriented Teams on Protective and Risk-Creating Factors of Drug Use among Secondary School Students in Shahrekord

This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of community-oriented teams on the protective and risk factors of drug use among secondary school students. Two boys' high schools and two girls' high schools were selected from second secondary schools in Shahrekord city, and then 240 students were selected as volunteers and entered the research and were assigned to two experimental and control groups. The students of both groups completed the questionnaire of protective and dangerous factors of drug use during three stages of pre-test, post-test and 3-month follow-up. Then community-oriented interventions were presented to the experimental group in 10 sessions of 120 minutes by the mental health assistants of the school in the form of direct training and educational pamphlets. The results of the analysis of variance with repeated measurements showed that community-based prevention activities had a lasting effect on reducing the average scores of protective factors and modulating the risk factors and substance use of students. These effects are significant on individual, psychological, family and community factors, but on It was not significant on school-related factors. It was concluded that community-based prevention interventions can be used to improve the risk-generating and protective factors of students' drug use.