This study is part of a more extensive evaluation of the Barbacana program
for the prevention of drug use, aimed at secondary education students,
the objective is two-fold:
1. To analyse the main tools employed in the program and to evaluate
the implementation process, observing how the scheduled activities have
been developed.
2. To evaluate the results, describing the benefits of the program for the
target population and the achievement of its foreseen goals.
To achieve the first objective, a qualitative methodology, based on
semi-structured interviews to the professors responsible of applying the
program at different centres within the Valencian Community, will be
carry out. From the resulting information, we can observe that the materials
and the process of the program have been qualified as positive or
very positive by the prevention agents and by the target group.
For the second objective, a quasi-experimental design with two groups
of non-equivalent comparison have been chosen, within the same period
of time, which will allow us to measure the differences and similarities
between the two groups and to confirm our initial causal hypothesis:
“The differences among the students from the experimental and control
groups, regarding information and consumption levels of the drugs, are
due, basically, to the application of the Barbacana program."