Effectiveness of distributing pocket cards in improving the behavior, attitude, and knowledge regarding proper medication use among junior high school students in Japan.

Objective: This study aimed to explore the effectiveness of distributing pocket cards with summaries of key information on appropriate medication usage after the implementation of a structured school-based medication education program for junior high school students in Japan.

Methods: A total of 227 3rd-grade high school students participated in the intervention. Students who received the program without the provision of pocket cards in 2022 were included in the comparison group, and students who took the program with the provision of pocket cards in 2023 were included in the intervention group.

Factors Influencing Medicine Use Behavior in Adolescents in Japan Using a Bayesian Network Analysis.

Medicine education in Japan was introduced to junior high schools in 2012. However, the effectiveness of existing education programs is limited. In order to develop more effective programs for high school students, the present study investigated the variables that directly influence medicine use behavior and the magnitude of their influence, using a Bayesian network analysis.

Reasons for alcohol consumption among Japanese high school students overall and by sex and year in school: An exploratory study.

This study sought to ascertain the association between alcohol consumption by Japanese high school students and their reasons for drinking. Monitoring the Future is a U.S.

Common aspects of the lifestyles of high school students in Japan and their associations with drug abuse: Findings from an aggregate sample of the Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs in 2004, 2006, and 2009.

This study sought (1) to determine the significant associations between measures of drug abuse and lifestyle variables in high school students in Japan, and (2) to ascertain common lifestyle variables in relation to associations between lifestyle and eight measures of drug abuse. Four measures were use of an inhalant, marijuana, an amphetamine-type stimulant (ATS), or MDMA (ecstasy) over the past year, and four measures were use of those drugs over one's lifetime. Data were from a combined sample (aggregate sample) from the Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (JSPAD).

[The association between extracurricular activities and exercise and substance abuse among high school students in Japan: results for an aggregate sample from the Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs in 2004, 2006, and 2009].

The purpose of this study was to clarify the subgroup differences in the association between participation in school-based extracurricular activities and exercise and levels of cigarette, alcohol, or marijuana use during one's lifetime and in the past year. This study also sought to determine the optimal classification of subgroups based on four variables (participation in school-based extracurricular activities, exercise, gender, and school year). Data consisted of a combined sample (aggregate sample) from the Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (JSPAD) conducted in 2004, 2006, and 2009.

[Gender differences in the association between substance abuse and lifestyles among high school students in Japan: findings from the 2009 Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs].

The purpose of this paper is to clarify gender differences in the association between substance abuse measures and lifestyle variables among Japanese high school students. The data was obtained from the nationwide representative sample of the Japanese School Survey Project on Alcohol and Other Drugs (JSPAD) conducted in 2009. The sample consisted of 25,242 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-year students at full-time high schools, which were selected by stratified, single-step cluster sampling.