The effectiveness of a training program based on Infographic technology in the development of drug and psychotropic awareness skills among students’ teachers at Prince Sattam Bin Abdul Aziz University

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to prepare a training program consisting of six skills (introducing the classification of drugs and psychotropic substances -awareness of the dangers of drugs and psychotropic substances - discussing the causes of drug addiction and psychotropic substances - explaining the manifestations of addiction -presenting the methods of dealing with an addicted or recovering person - introducing the role of the teacher in immunizing his students against the dangers of addiction and psychotropic substances) and aimed to raise the competence of the teacher in introducing the dangers of drugs and their impact on the mind, the program was designed with infographic technology. The research sample was divided into two groups, one experimental, taught using the infographic technology and the other group taught in the traditional way. The results indicated the effectiveness of the program, whether presented with infographic technology or the traditional method, in improving the skills of awareness of the harms of drugs and psychotropic substances in the research sample, and confirmed that the use of modern techniques in training has a great effective effect in enriching the required information.