“Unplugged: dall’Europa al Piemonte, una strategia di prevenzione efficace”

[Machine translation] Introduction. Unplugged is a school prevention program, based on the model of social influence; it aims to prevent and/or delay the use of substances and improving the well-being and psychosocial health of children. The The program was evaluated as part of the coordinated eu-DAP (European Drug Addiction Prevention Trial) study from the Epidemiological Observatory of Addiction, Orientale ASL TO3, Piedmont Region, with the University of Turin and the University of Piedmont “A. Avogadro”. The evaluation results show that the program is effective in preventing and delay the use of tobacco, alcohol and cannabis. In fact, three months later. At the end of the program, students who followed the Unplugged units showed a 30% reduction in 31% chance of smoking daily, of having frequent smoking alcohol poisoning and 23% of using cannabis compared to children in the control group. Methods. The program is divided into 12 units of 1 hour each and is conducted by the teacher with an interactive methodology. Teachers are specifically trained by participating in a 20-hour training course, conducted by local trainers. After the phase in which the OED training group was engaged in direct training of teachers, and based on the indications of the EU-DAP Faculty, there has been an opportunity to enhance the skills and experience of operators already active in various titles in school prevention, offering them the opportunity for specific training on the Unplugged methodology, with the aim of activating them as local trainers. Since 2010 the phase Current dissemination therefore involves a collaboration between OED and territorial services, aimed at integrating the Unplugged methodology with the experience and network of operators already active. Results. In the first phase of dissemination related to the year school year 2009/2010, the OED trainers have activated 8 training courses for teachers, involving 190 teachers. Following the new indications, from 2010 to today, the OED has created 6 training courses for local trainers that have reached 133 operators already active in the field of prevention. In turn, local trainers activated, in the 2010/11 school year, 16 trainings, reaching 265 teachers from 70 Piedmontese schools, 50 of which were secondary schools in first grade and, in the 2011/12 school year, 22 formations, involving 424 teachers, belonging to 119 Piedmontese schools, including 84 first-grade secondary schools. Conclusions. The strong Piedmontese roots, initially represented in the EU-DAP experimentation by the participation of the schools of Novara and Turin, equal to 30% of the total sample, is then confirmed by the important evolution and the dissemination of Unplugged on the regional territory.