Survey Data for Assessment
Community Prevention Framework
January Webcast
2013
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Logic Model
Consequences
Behaviors
Intervening
Variables
Legal
Substance abuse
Alcohol
Tobacco
Prescription drugs
Marijuana
Other drugs
Delinquency
Teen pregnancy
School dropout
Violence
Depression & Anxiety
Gambling
Risk Factors
Protective Factors
Contributing Factors
Health
Social
Financial
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Definitions of Terms
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Risk Factor
Protective Factor
Prevalence
Statistical Significance
Percent
Rate
Culture
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Risk Factors
• Conditions that increase the likelihood of
a person becoming involved in drug use,
delinquency, school dropout and/or
violence.
Source: CTC, Risk and Protective Factor Scale Construction Summary.
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Protective Factors
• Conditions that buffer a person from
exposure to risk by either reducing the
impact of the risks or changing the way
the person responds to risks.
Source: CTC, Risk and Protective Factor Scale Construction Summary.
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Prevalence
• Percentage of a population that is
affected or that meets a given criteria,
e.g., having used alcohol in the past
month.
Source: CTC, Risk and Protective Factor Scale Construction Summary.
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Statistical Significance
• A difference of such magnitude as to
provide confidence that
– the result did not occur by chance
– the change was caused by something other
than chance.
Source: CTC, Risk and Protective Factor Scale Construction Summary.
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Number vs. Percent/Rate
• The number tells how many people. The
percent tells the rate per 100 persons.
• Percent captures the number
• Percent allows for comparisons of
prevalence, e.g., of places of unequal size
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Culture
• The shared values, norms, traditions,
customs, arts, history, folklore, and
institutions of a group of people, passed
on by more experienced members to new
members.
Tip
• Deep culture
– Thoughts
– Ideas
– Understandings
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IN Youth Survey Data
• Risk Factor Data
• Protective Factor Data
• Youth Problem Behaviors Data
2012
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Domains of Influence
Society
Community
Family
School
Peer
Individual
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IN Youth Survey Risk Factor Data
• Availability of Drugs
• Community Laws and
Norms Favorable
toward Drug Use
• Family Management
Problems
• Family Conflict
• Favorable Parental
Attitudes and
Involvement in
Problem Behavior
• Academic Failure
Beginning in Late
Elementary
• Lack of Commitment to
School
• Rebelliousness
• Friends Who Engage in
Problem Behavior
• Early Initiation of the
Problem Behavior
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Perceived Availability of Drugs
• How easy would it be for you to get . . .
– Cigarettes?
– Beer, wine or liquor?
– Marijuana
– A drug like cocaine, LSD or amphetamines?
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Community Laws & Norms
Favorable Toward Drug Use
• How wrong would most adults (over 21) in
your neighborhood think it is for kids your
age ….?
– To use marijuana?
– To drink alcohol?
– To smoke cigarettes?
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Poor Family Management
• My parents ask if I’ve gotten my homework
done
• Would your parents know if you did not come
home on time?
• When I am not at home, one of my parents
knows where I am and whom I am with.
• The rules in my family are clear.
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Poor Family Management, cont.
• My family has clear rules about alcohol and drug
use.
• If you drank some beer or wine or liquor (e.g.,
vodka, whisky or gin) without your parents’
permission, would you be caught by your parents?
• If you skipped school, would you be caught by your
parents?
• If you carried a handgun without your parents’
permission, would you be caught by your parents?
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Family Conflict
• People in my family often insult or yell at each
other.
• People in my family have serious arguments.
• We argue about the same things in my family
over and over.
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Parental Attitudes Favorable
toward ATOD Use
• How wrong do your parents feel it would be for
you to:
– Drink beer, wine or hard liquor regularly?
– Smoke cigarettes?
– Smoke marijuana?
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Academic Failure Beginning in
Late Elementary School
• What grades do you generally get in school?
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Lack of Commitment to School
• How often do you feel that the schoolwork you are
assigned is meaningful and important?
• How interesting are most of your courses to you?
• How important do you think the things you are
learning in school are going to be for your later
life?
• During the LAST FOUR WEEKS, how many whole
days have you missed because you skipped or
“cut”?
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Lack of Commitment to School,
cont.
• Now, thinking back over the past year in
school, how often did you:
– Enjoy being in school?
– Hate being in school?
– Try to do your best work in school?
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Rebelliousness
• I do the opposite of what people tell me, just to
get them mad.
• I ignore rules that get in my way.
• I like to see how much I can get away with.
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Friends Who Engage in the
Problem Behavior
• Think of your four best friends (the friends
you feel closest to). In the past year (12
months), how many of your best friends
have:
– Been suspended from school?
– Carried a handgun?
– Sold illegal drugs?
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Friends Who Engage in the
Problem Behavior, cont.
• Think of your four best friends (the friends
you feel closest to). In the past year (12
months), how many of your best friends
have:
– Stolen or tried to steal a motor vehicle such as a
car or motorcycle?
– Been arrested?
– Dropped out of school?
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Favorable Attitudes toward
the Problem Behavior
• How wrong do you think it is for someone
your age to:
– Take a handgun to school?
– Steal anything worth more than $5?
– Pick a fight with someone?
– Attack someone with the idea of seriously
hurting him or her?
– Stay away from school all day when their
parents think they are at school?
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Early Initiation of the
Problem •Behavior
(ATOD
At what age
did Q)
Cigarettes
• At what age did you first
use . . .
– Cigarettes
– Smokeless Tobacco
– Cigars
– Pipe
– Alcohol
– Marijuana
– Cocaine
– Crack
– Inhalants
– Meth
– Heroin
– Steroids
– Ecstasy
– Hallucinogens
– Rx Drugs to get high
– OTC to get high
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IN Youth Survey Protective
Factor Data
• Family Opportunities for Prosocial
Involvement
• Family Rewards for Prosocial Involvement
• Community Rewards for Prosocial
Involvement
• School Opportunities for Prosocial
Involvement
• School Rewards for Prosocial Involvement
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Family Opportunities for
Prosocial Involvement
• My parents give me lots of chances to do fun
things with them.
• My parents ask me what I think before most
family decisions affecting me are made.
• If I had a personal problem, I could ask my
mom or dad for help.
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Community Rewards for
Prosocial Involvement
• My neighbors notice when I am doing a
good job and let me know.
• There are people in my neighborhood who
encourage me to do my best.
• There are people in my neighborhood who
are proud of me when I do something well.
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School Opportunities for
Prosocial Involvement
• In my school, students have lots of changes
to help decide things like class activities and
rules.
• There are lots of chances for students in my
school to talk with a teacher one-on-one.
• Teachers ask me to work on special
classroom projects.
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School Opportunities for
Prosocial Involvement, cont.
• There are lots of chances for students in my
school to get involved in sports, clubs, and
other school activities outside of class.
• I have lots of chances to be part of class
discussions or activities.
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School Rewards for Prosocial
Involvement
• My teacher(s) notice when I am doing a
good job and lets me know about it.
• The school lets my parents know when I have
done something well.
• I feel safe at my school.
• My teachers praise me when I work hard in
school.
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Youth Problem Behaviors Data
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Substance Abuse
Delinquency
Teen Pregnancy
School Drop-Out
Violence
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IN Youth Survey
Problem Behaviors Data –
Substance Abuse
• Use of Alcohol and Other Drugs
– Have you ever used
– How many times in the last month …
– At what age did you first use …
– Binge drinking (5/4 x in past 2 wks)
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Interpreting R&P Data
• How wrong do you think it is for someone
your age to smoke cigarettes?
– Not wrong at all (1)
– A little bit wrong (2)
– Wrong (3)
– Very wrong (4)
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Identifying Elevated Risk
The number of Indiana 8th graders at risk for family
conflict is greater than that of other communities
across the nation.
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Family Conflict Scale
We argue about the same things in my family
over and over.
People in my family have serious arguments.
People in my family often insult or yell at
each other.
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Family Conflict Scale
35.3% of
students
reported
that their
family
argues
repetitively
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Identifying Depressed Protection
• My parents give me lots of chances to do fun
things with them. smoke cigarettes?
– NO!(1)
– no (2)
– yes (3)
– YES! (4)
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Interpreting R&P Data
The number of Indiana 6th graders benefitting from
community rewards for involvement is less than that
of other communities across the nation.
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Community Rewards Scale
My neighbors notice when I am doing a good
job and let me know.
There are people in my neighborhood who are
proud of me when I do something well.
There are people in my neighborhood who
encourage me to do my best.
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Community Rewards Scale
48% of students
reported that
their neighbors
DO NOT take
notice of them
and recognize
them for doing a
good job
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