Addictive substance use in children and adolescents from ethnic minorities and socially excluded areas with an emphasis on the transfer of experience with prevention and research methods from Norwegian partners
The Centre for Addictology, Psychiatric Clinic, 1st Medical Faculty of Charles University (member of the European Network on Drug Culture Research working group, led by Prof. Swensson of Sweden) has established cooperation with a number of universities. This working group conceived the intention of carrying out a partial project corresponding to a thematic area under Measure A of the grant call of the Research Support Fund financed by EEA. The subject under consideration is that of research into addictive substance use among adolescents from ethnic minorities, the related health and social consequences, and the prevention thereof, which is an issue that has been disregarded in the Czech Republic for a long time. The Centre for Addictology has made several attempts to investigate this area in the past. However, these were always limited by a lack of interest on the part of the competent authorities and institutions, insufficient support, and a lack of financial resources. Therefore, only small pilot studies were conducted. Nevertheless, these provide clear evidence that the issue in question poses a truly pressing problem for the Czech Republic and that, apart from the complications mentioned above, there is a low level of professional preparedness for and experience of such a specific research focus and preventive intervention programmes for these target groups. We believe that the project as proposed will provide the Czech party with the theoretical basis for a thorough understanding of the issue under consideration. In addition, the Czech party should benefit from the project by adopting know-how for working with the target group and by the establishment of instructional support for training in the issue delivered to practitioners and students. Apart from the above, the project will establish a partnership between two research institutions, which will result in the development of a research framework for the issue under study. It is also our aim to work within this framework after the project has been completed.
Evaluation of Addictive Substance Use Community-Based Primary Prevention Programme
The primary-prevention programme evaluation is a three-year research project which was launched in 2003 and has continued since 2004 thanks to the support provided by the Czech Science Foundation (GA CR No. 406/04/P250). The project is carried out in liaison with Prev-Centrum Praha, a civic association. Its key objective is to compare the differences between the results of an intervention featuring a community-based primary prevention programme and the application of a minimum prevention programme.
The role of pharmacies in the prevention of infectious diseases in injecting drug users in the Czech Republic
Pharmacies facilitating access to sterile injecting material significantly contributes to a reduction in infections and a further spread of infectious diseases among the public.
Development of Coding System for Socio-Psychological Quantitative Content Analysis of Media Messages and its combination with Qualitative methods
In years 2007-2009 Center for Addictology carry out research projecttargeted on developing and verifying a coding system for socio-psychological quantitative content analysis of media messages. The system will be verified on the subject area of drugs.
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