Abstract:
The purposes of this research were as follows: (1) to investigate the knowledge and comprehension level on drug prevention and their need to participate in training; (2) to develop the training curriculum on the drug prevention for the inmates in Chumphon jail ; and (3) to experiment and evaluate the developed training curriculum on the participatory drug prevention. The stages and research results were as follows:
The first stage was the stage of investigating the knowledge and comprehension level of the inmates and their need to attain the training on the participatory drug prevention. At this stage, the researcher studied the documents and research findings along with the field research with 175 inmates as the sample population. It was found that the level of their knowledge and understanding of the drugs and drug prevention was in the low level at the percentage of 70.09 and in the high level at the percentage of 29.1. The survey results on the need to acquire the training revealed that they required participating in the training at the percentage of 28.58, in drug prevention participation at the percentage of 26.86, in drug prevention planning at the percentage of 22.86, and in self-development for better quality of life at the percentage of 21.71, respectively. The second stage was the stage of curriculum development. The data gathered from the first stage curriculum were used as the basic to specify the curriculum contents consisting of (1) problems and need, (2) curriculum objectives, and (3) themes. The themes were composed of the knowledge of drugs, drug prevention participation, and drug prevention participation. Each theme consisted of behavioral objectives, theme contents, training techniques, visual aids, duration, and training evaluation. The curriculum outlines were then checked by subject matter specialists, and the result was found to be suitable and in the high and highest correlation level. The last stage was the stage of curriculum evaluation. The training workshop was employed to 40 sample population. The result revealed that there were significant differences at the level of 0.05 between the mean score of pretest and posttest on the aspect of knowledge and attitude.