Intervention Program Recommendation - Article Example

This journal acts as a modern-day intervention sensitization tool that seeks to address the rising cases of abuse of marijuana on college campuses. In the preceding arguments, the journal first highlights the reduced intervention strategies put in place to curb the rising cases of marijuana abuse in educational institutions especially on college campuses (Lee et.al, 2013). Moreover, the authors do not hesitate to provide a recommendation on the best intervention strategy to be implemented in the modern-day college campus environment (Lee et.al, 2013). The intervention is the inclusion of real cases in collecting data for the strategy. The strategy at first involved locating students who had admitted to using the drug. The students would then act as a representation of an entire college campus.

The probability is then calculated about the results from the selected sample. After the collection of the data, the strategy would then proceed to the recommendation implementation part (Lee et.al, 2013). The journal suggested that the affected students be directly involved in the intervention. This recommendation also included the use of face-to-face interviews and communication with the affected students (Lee et.al, 2013). The entire intervention suggested in the journal is formatted in the form of a seminar where interested students are included in help programs for dealing with the effects of marijuana or addiction to the drug (Lee et.al, 2013). However, each student participating in the program is provided with feedback based on their progress, not the generalized progress of the program (Lee et.al, 2013).

Additionally, the journal highlighted the results and the progress of an already-implemented strategy. From the results obtained, Lee et.al (2013) pointed out that the recommended strategy was successful. They further highlight that, after three months, the student involved in the program showed great improvement in their addiction status. In the measurement of the content of marijuana used, the suggested intervention measured the marijuana content in weeks. Generally, Lee et.al (2013) argue that the preliminary data collected after implementing this particular intervention displayed a great possibility of reducing consumption on the college campus.

The recommended intervention has a high potential in reducing the level of marijuana consumption on college campuses. If the results of the preliminary data analysis are to be considered, the intervention has great potential in addressing the issue at hand (Lee et.al, 2013). In addition, the control group used in testing the effectiveness of the preliminary analysis of the intervention is appropriate in coming up with a reliable set of data collected (Lee et.al, 2013). However, the data collected from the population sample may not reflect the existing situation in the entire population. Nonetheless, the significance of this error had a low reflection in analyzing the results of the preliminary results when the intervention was tested.

Additionally, the numerical analysis of the data greatly minimizes the probability of errors when analyzing the progress of the intervention. Read More