Registration Number: APVV-15-0662 Slovak Reseach and Development Agency Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic

Project title: Psychological mechanism of risk behavior change of schoolchildren and university students. Risk behavior and migration/emigration intentions 

Project solution period: 2016 - 2020

Position in the project: investigator

Abstract:The aim of the first part of the project is to build on and further develop databased prevention of substance use (SU) among schoolchildren and university students (Solomon four group design will be used to address program effectiveness among schoolchildren and university students). The effectiveness of the universal prevention program of SU Unplugged will be also explored by using comparisons of its implementation with and without booster sessions. Particular attention will be paid to the exploration of the short term and long term effectiveness of the Unplugged program (up to 3 years) also in the context of risk behavior of parents and the context of family processes which will be based on comparative parent-child data. The first part the project follows educational and research activities of the EU-Dap Faculty Network and SPAN/The Science for Prevention Academic Network (our team is a part of these networks) in the field of SU prevention and further develops the research conducted within the project APVV-0253-11. The second part of the project is to focus on the exploration of university students´ intentions regarding migration (national) and emigration (international) and their changes in Slovakia, Ukraine, Hungary and other cooperating EU countries in relation risk behavior and personal and environmental resources. This part of the project follows the SLiCE study. The further aim of the second part of the project is to explore opinions about migration and emigration of schoolchildren and their changes in relation risk behavior and their predictors. The project will support research of young researchers, PhD students and aims to disseminate and implement the findings into school practice.

Registration Number: VEGA 1/0371/20 Scientific Grant Agency of the Ministry of Education, Science, Reseach and Sport of the Slovak republic and Slovak Academy Of Science

Project title: Trends in the prevalence of adolescent risk behaviour. Schoolbased randomized control trial aimed at the prevention of adolescent substance use in the Slovak Republic. 

Position in the project: investigator

Abstract:The main aims of this project are: (i) to explore the effect of time (baseline and four follow-ups carried out over a period of 22 months) on risk behaviour among schoolchildren in primary schools and to compare the trends in their risk behaviour using two databases of sixth and seventh graders. (ii) to contribute to Prevention and Intervention Science by exploiting two large and unique datasets containing data on the effectiveness of the Unplugged program on schoolchildren´s risk behaviour. These datasets contain data on different target groups, with varying program design of program implementation; fidelity of the program implementation. (iii) to explore the associations between risk behaviour and intentions to study abroad among secondary school students and other factors related to these intentions. Furthermore, the findings will be disseminated at scientific conferences, via articles published in scientific journals, a monograph and implemented by school managements and school psychologists.