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Sharp, Erin Hiley; Coffman, Donna L.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Smith, Edward A.; Wegner, Lisa; Vergnani, Tania; Mathews, Catherine – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2011
Using seven waves of data, collected twice a year from the 8th through the 11th grades in a low-resource community in Cape Town, South Africa, we aimed to describe the developmental trends in three specific leisure experiences (leisure boredom, new leisure interests, and healthy leisure) and substance use (cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana)…
Descriptors: Smoking, Marijuana, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
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Tibbits, Melissa K.; Smith, Edward A.; Caldwell, Linda L.; Flisher, Alan J. – Health Education Research, 2011
This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of the HealthWise South Africa HIV and substance abuse prevention program at impacting adolescents' polydrug use and sexual risk behaviors. HealthWise is a school-based intervention designed to promote social-emotional skills, increase knowledge and refusal skills relevant to substance use and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Substance Abuse, Intervention, Leisure Time