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Projects: Thailand

Projects: Thailand

Adolescent Alcohol Use in Thailand

NPCADA director, Ian Newman, started working in Thailand in the early 1970s as a staff member for the World Health Organization, staffing programs on health promotion and family planning. Ties between NPCADA and Thailand increased in the 1980s when Thai graduate students studied with NPCADA faculty. The University of Nebraska now has a memorandum of agreement with Mahidol University that supports student and faculty exchanges and cooperative research endeavors. In 2003, ten health social science doctoral students from the Salaya campus of Mahidol University will spend one month at the University of Nebraska participating in a specially designed educational program.

Joint research projects between NPCADA and Thai scholars include an effort to understand alcohol expectancies among Thai adolescents and tracking the development of village level alcohol production.

Objectives

  • Continue and expand the faculty/student exchange program.
  • Analyze the alcohol expectancy data collected from a sample of approximately 2300 students in Chonburi Province.
  • Revise the expectancy scale used in Thailand to better reflect the influence of Buddhism on alcohol expectancies.
  • Seek support for a longitudinal study of the effects of village level alcohol production.

Activities

At the moment two manuscripts describing Thai adolescent alcohol use and alcohol expectancies are being prepared.

In March 2003, ten health social science doctoral students from Mahidol University, Salaya Campus, will study at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Prevention Center personnel are currently engaged in helping to organize a meeting in Bangkok to explore ways to reduce traffic deaths, including those caused by drunk driving.

A series of repeated informal observations of alcohol production in one particular village has led to the plan to seek funding to explore the impact of newly the legalized village level alcohol production on the consumption patterns of villagers.

Publications & Papers

See: NPCADA Publications & Papers: Thailand.

Resarch Team

Faculty and Graduate Students:

Ian M. Newman, PhD.

Duane F. Shell, PhD.

Saranya Innadda, PhD.

Consultants:

Suree Kanjanawang, PhD, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Mahidol University, Salaya campus.

Pimpawan Boonmongkon, PhD, Associate Professor in the Center for Health Policy Studies, Mahidol University, Salaya campus.