The culturally grounded Ho'ouna Pono curriculum produced small but significant reductions in cigarette/e-cigarette and hard drug use for some cohorts, but not for alcohol or marijuana use¶

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q2 i? The Native Hawaiian curriculum's effects were cohort-specific: small but significant deceleration in cigarette/e-cigarette and hard-drug use growth for one cohort each, no significant effect on marijuana use, and a flatter alcohol growth trajectory only for the latest-exposed cohort. → Bajpai Tewari 2026

Evidence¶

Bajpai Tewari 2026¶

Bajpai Tewari, D., Gautam, U., Jaiswal, V., Pooja, Mishra, A., & Das, P. (2026). Integrated Education Models for Addressing Substance Use Among Schoolchildren: A Scoping Review of School-Based Educational Interventions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph23081073

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Synthesis in Section 3.2.3 of a dynamic wait-listed control group study (N = 486, ages 11-14, Table 4) of the Ho'ouna Pono video-based curriculum. The review reports "small but significant reductions in cigarette/e-cigarette and hard drug use for some cohorts, but not for alcohol or marijuana use." No effect sizes are printed.

"the curriculum produced small but significant reductions in cigarette/e-cigarette and hard drug use for some cohorts, but not for alcohol or marijuana use [108]."

Discussion¶

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