I have chosen Alcohol Use for my interactivity assignment topic. The purpose of the Education for Behavior Change (EdBC) is to provide an intervention to reduce alcohol abuse among adults and students. Moreover, the intervention aims help to recover alcoholics to overcome their addiction as well as adults who regularly drink alcohol. There is an enormous need to establish a minimum drinking age to curb alcohol abuse among people, especially addicted people. Thus, the question that emerges is what will the establishment of minimum drinking age curb alcohol abuse among people?
2. In one paragraph EACH, describe and explain how your EdBC intervention would accomplish each of the four components of EdBC:
a. Increasing awareness:
Educating people is the best intervention. The intervention will utilize informative multimedia such as brochures, flyers, and videos to convey existing information on …show more content…
They teach the teenagers on alcohol impedance skills and social as well personal approaches to alcohol in a brief session. Secondly, Selective alcohol education programs are developing for students who are identified as having a risk of being exposed to alcohol due to the personal, family factors, and community. Selective alcohol education helps the schools educate teenagers on the disadvantages of alcohol in their lives. Lastly, indicated programs are designed for students with behavioral problems linked to drinking alcohol. These educational programs are more focused on reducing or controlling existing alcohol use rather than preventing its use. Educational programs are lusty in helping students to reduce the rate of alcohol abuse and use. However, they require high cost and are not the most efficacious in controlling alcohol abuse among the