Abstract:
This quasi-experimental research aimed to study the effects of alcohol consumption prevention with a family participation program in early adolescents. The study group was junior high school grades 7 to 8 in the extended opportunities education school, Lampang province. The experimental and control group was randomly selected with 30 persons per group. The study duration was 8 weeks, which was divided into experimentation for 4 weeks and a follow up for 4 weeks. The study applied a Health Belief Model with family participation to enhance perceived self-efficacy and alcohol consumption prevention. Collecting data was by self-administered questionnaire, including perceived susceptibility of drinking alcohol, perceived severity of drinking alcohol, perceived benefits of not drinking alcohol, perceived barriers of not drinking alcohol, self-efficiency for avoiding drinking alcohol and how to protect themselves from drinking alcohol. Data were analyzed by using percentage, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, Independent t-test, Repeated Measure One-way ANOVA and Paired t-test. The results indicated that in the follow-up period, the experimental group had not had average scores for perceived susceptibility to drinking alcohol, perceived severity of drinking alcohol, perceived benefits of not drinking alcohol, perceived barriers of not drinking alcohol, selfefficacy for avoiding drinking alcohol and how to protect themselves from drinking alcohol were different from before the experiment, and did not differ from those in the comparison group; both after and during the follow-up period.(p-value > .05) The results of the research revealed that the application of the Health Belief Model with family participation might not be able to change prevention behaviors of alcohol consumption in early adolescents to prevent them from drinking alcohol.