In addition to the Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model, the Health Belief Model (HBM) has been utilized to assist drug use prevention education. Zadeh, Changizi, and Sadeghi (2014) found that adolescent substance abuse educational programs that were based on the HBM had a positive impact on awareness and perceptions of substance use and influenced the adoption of preventive behaviors towards the prevention of adolescent substance. Their study showed that these types of education programs increased the perceived benefits and reduced the barriers to preventative behavior. For example, teenagers perceived the prevention of addiction as valuable, after education, because they then viewed it as less
In addition to the Screening Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) model, the Health Belief Model (HBM) has been utilized to assist drug use prevention education. Zadeh, Changizi, and Sadeghi (2014) found that adolescent substance abuse educational programs that were based on the HBM had a positive impact on awareness and perceptions of substance use and influenced the adoption of preventive behaviors towards the prevention of adolescent substance. Their study showed that these types of education programs increased the perceived benefits and reduced the barriers to preventative behavior. For example, teenagers perceived the prevention of addiction as valuable, after education, because they then viewed it as less