Educational intervention and positive expectancies about the alcohol use among students

Abstract

It aimed to evaluate the positive expectancies about the recent alcohol use by elementary and high school students before and after an educational intervention and verify differences in the frequency of use and in the information about this substance, according to sex. A quasi-experimental study, carried out with 231 students. We made use of: Sociodemographic form; Drug Use Screening Inventory; Alcohol Expectancies Scale, applied 60 days before and after the intervention. We used descriptive and inferential statistical analyses. The hypothesis of the study was not confirmed. In general group, no significant changes were seen about the alcohol after the intervention. The consumption frequency remained high after the activity, with emphasis for the female gender. The results have shown that the educational intervention was ineffective to influence changes of the alcohol use, however, it was effective for the acquisition of information about the substance.