Date of Conferral

2020

Degree

Doctor of Public Health (DrPH)

School

Public Health

Advisor

Sumner W. Davis

Abstract

Drug abuse represents a significant public health problem worldwide, with socioeconomic consequences shaped by a cluster of behavioral, cognitive, and physiological phenomena and serious social, physical, emotional problems. The purpose of this study was to assess the association between mentoring interventions and drug abuse among African American young people. The health belief model was the theoretical framework. The secondary data analysis was done using the data set from the 2014 National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The dependent variable was drug abuse, while the independent variable was mentoring interventions. The Chi-square analysis revealed an association between participation in school-based intervention programs and drug abuse [(χ2(1, N = 3533) = 8.567, p = .003]. There was no association between participation in drug abuse prevention activities and drug abuse nor between the number of school- and community-based activities participation and drug abuse. The observed association observed between drug abuse and school-based intervention programs as a mentoring approach suggests that other mentoring intervention programs need to be modified for effectiveness, which would result in positive soial change.

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