Initial internal reliability and descriptive statistics for a brief assessment tool for the Life Skills Training drug-abuse prevention program. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Adolescent drug use in the United States remains the highest in the industrialized world. Fortunately there have been significant advances in developing effective prevention programs for adolescent drug use. An important issue in evaluating such programs is that the self-report surveys have adequate psychometric properties and assess constructs targeted by an intervention. A questionnaire focusing on knowledge and drug-related measures was developed to evaluate the research-based Life Skills Training drug prevention intervention. The questionnaire showed good internal reliability, detected change from pretest to posttest, and was brief and easy to complete by 45 middle-school students.

publication date

  • October 1, 2002

Research

keywords

  • Preventive Health Services
  • Substance-Related Disorders
  • Teaching

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0036782510

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.2.459

PubMed ID

  • 12416839

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 91

issue

  • 2