Table 9 |
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Percent of students who gave a correct answer to program content questions. |
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| Control |
Drug Ed |
Significance Level df = 11 |
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| N = 524 |
N = 419 |
N = 433 |
N = 388 |
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| Baseline |
6-month follow-up |
Baseline |
6-month follow-up |
F |
p valuea |
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| 1. Drugs affect your mind only while you are taking them. (answered false) |
58.8% |
68.7% |
58.0% |
68.3% |
3.21 |
<0.001 |
| 2. Alcohol is not a drug. (answered false) |
51.3% |
54.9% |
53.3% |
70.9% |
6.03 |
<0.001 |
| 3. Every drug really produces just one main effect and that is what you should be concerned about. (answered false) |
62.2% |
69.0% |
56.4% |
63.9% |
3.77 |
<0.001 |
| 4. Drug abuse only means illegal drugs. (answered false) |
79.0% |
80.4% |
76.7% |
79.1% |
4.24 |
<0.001 |
| 5. Because marijuana grows naturally, the chemicals it contains aren't really bad for your body. (answered false) |
67.9% |
74.2% |
60.5% |
68.8% |
3.53 |
<0.001 |
| 6. One reason youth experiment with drugs is because they are advertised in movies, television, and magazines. (answered true) |
57.6% |
61.6% |
47.6% |
64.9% |
4.70 |
<0.001 |
| 7. All drugs change the way your body works, whether you want them to or not. (answered true) |
76.1% |
76.4% |
65.4% |
74.5% |
2.15 |
0.015 |
| 8. Once you take a drug, it will always have the same effect each time you take it. (answered false) |
48.9% |
57.3% |
47.3% |
56.4% |
3.58 |
<0.001 |
| 9. Drugs cause your body to use up vitamins and minerals. (answered true) |
36.3% |
50.4% |
33.0% |
72.9% |
8.79 |
<0.001 |
| 10. Drugs can cause blank spots in your memory. (answered true) |
75.2% |
80.4% |
66.5% |
79.6% |
5.06 |
<0.001 |
| 11. Drugs can cause a person to be sure they are doing one thing when in actual fact they are doing something else. (answered true) |
68.9% |
73.3% |
60.0% |
67.5% |
5.25 |
<0.001 |
| 12. Hallucinogens are not as bad as other drugs. (answered false) |
50.6% |
57.0% |
42.0% |
59.0% |
2.90 |
<0.001 |
| 13. Alcohol ads are designed only for people over 21 years of age. (answered false) |
51.7% |
59.2% |
49.9% |
58.8% |
7.35 |
<0.001 |
| 14. Drugs can change how you feel, after a while a person on drugs can become depressed and not caring. (answered true) |
76.5% |
79.5% |
72.3% |
75.8% |
3.23 |
<0.001 |
| 15. Once you stop drugs, it's over – they have no further effect on your body or mind. (answered false) |
76.1% |
77.3% |
68.4% |
70.9% |
2.60 |
0.003 |
| 16. Addiction only happens once you can't say no. (answered true) |
31.9% |
37.9% |
26.1% |
24.5% |
2.95 |
0.001 |
| 17. Its okay if you just take drugs once in a while because the body cleans all the drug stuff out in a few days. (answered false) |
66.4% |
69.5% |
63.0% |
72.9% |
3.53 |
<0.001 |
| 18. I know how to tell if I am getting good information about drugs. (answered true) |
46.9% |
62.1% |
49.2% |
63.4% |
2.56 |
0.003 |
| 19. A person needs to have personal goals to be happy. (answered true) |
60.1% |
68.3% |
52.7% |
69.3% |
3.28 |
<0.001 |
| 20. It is easy for me to communicate what I think or how I feel about something. (answered true) |
63.4% |
70.6% |
56.8% |
65.2% |
1.34 |
ns |
| 21. I know enough about drugs to make my own decisions. (answered true) |
80.0% |
84.2% |
76.9% |
81.7% |
2.77 |
0.002 |
| 22. I can easily resist pressures to take drugs. (answered true) |
72.3% |
78.8% |
70.0% |
74.5% |
2.77 |
0.002 |
| 23. I have resisted pressures to take drugs before. (answered true) |
66.4% |
69.2% |
58.9% |
68.3% |
.88 |
ns |
| 24. In the future, I might use drugs. (answered false) |
64.9% |
65.9% |
60.7% |
60.8% |
2.74 |
0.002 |
| 25. Drugs aren't really that bad. (answered false) |
79.4% |
81.6% |
70.9% |
75.0% |
1.91 |
0.035 |
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a Controlling for baseline differences by using an analysis of covariance with a Type III sums of squares | ||||||
Lennox and Cecchini Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 2008 3:8 doi:10.1186/1747-597X-3-8 |
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