The Knowledge about Drugs, Attitudes towards Them and Drug Use Rates of High School Students

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-388 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dianne Fejer ◽  
Reginald G. Smart
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
School Students ◽  
Academic Standing ◽  
High Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

A survey of attitudes towards drugs, knowledge about them and the use of alcohol, tobacco, illicit and psychoactive drugs was conducted among 4,693 high school students in Metropolitan Toronto. Males knew slightly more about drugs than females and had more permissive attitudes towards them. Knowledge level and permissive attitudes tended to increase with grade level. Knowledge scores also increased, but attitudes became less permissive with increasing academic standing. However, differences between drug users and nonusers in knowledge and attitude were larger than differences related to social and demographic characteristics. Users, especially of illicit drugs, had higher knowledge scores and more permissive attitudes than nonusers. Knowledge and attitude scores were closely related. Students with high knowledge scores had more permissive attitudes than those with low knowledge scores. Questions were raised concerning the value of providing factual information as a method of deterring drug use.

Patterns and Correlates of Drug Use among Urban High School Students

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jack McKillip ◽  
James E. Johnson ◽  
Thomas P. Petzel
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Urban High School ◽  
School Students ◽  
Significant Relationships ◽  
Parental Drug Use ◽  
Peer Drug Use

A drug-use survey was administered in a large metropolitan, middle class high school to test two hypotheses: a. drug users can be divided according to the types of drugs used (tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana vs. opiates, LSD, amphetamines, etc.); and, b. respondents' drug use is significantly related to their peers drug use. Both hypotheses were supported. Reports of personal drug use were factor analyzed dividing drug use into two categories. Intercorrelations of students' own drug use with reported parental, sibling, and peer drug use all revealed significant relationships. Peer drug use correlated the highest, followed by sibling and parental drug use. A number of implications of these results for the organization of high school drug programs and for counseling drug users were discussed.

scholarly journals Upaya Peningkatan Pengetahuan dan Sikap Siswa SMP dalam Pencegahan Penggunaan NAPZA

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50
Author(s):  
Heryanto Sumbung ◽  
Evi Martha
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
Junior High School Students ◽  
P Value ◽  
School Students ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Background: Ransiki is a district in South Manokwari Regency which was a new division in West Papua Province. Junior high school students in Ransiki are at risk of drug use. An effort should be made to improve the knowledge and attitude of junior high school students as a form of prevention of drug use. This study aimed to improve knowledge and attitude for the prevention of drug use in junior high school students in Ransiki using the training module "Pengenalan Bahaya NAPZA bagi Kesehatan".Method: This was a Pre Experimental study using the one group pre-test and post-test design. The study samples were 60 students. Samples were determined by purposive sampling. The intervention was conducted by providing module training for five meetings. The pre-test and post-test of students were analyzed using the Dependent T-test.Results: The results showed there was a significant relationship between the mean score of students’ knowledge before the intervention (39.44) and after the intervention (77.77) (p-value = 0.0001). There was a significant relationship between the mean score of students’ attitudes before the intervention (73.40) and after the intervention (82.40) (p-value = 0.0001). The training module "Pengenalan Bahaya NAPZA bagi Kesehatan" can be used to improve students' knowledge and attitude to prevent drug use in junior high school students of South Manokwari Regency

scholarly journals Swedish high-school pupils’ attitudes towards drugs in relation to drug usage, impulsiveness and other risk factors

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fariba Mousavi ◽  
Danilo Garcia ◽  
Trevor Archer ◽  
Béatrice Ewalds-Kvist
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Odds Ratio ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
School Students ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Positive Attitudes

Background: Illicit drug use influences people’s lives and elicits unwanted behaviour. Current research shows that there is an increase in young people’s drug use in Sweden. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating high-school students’ attitudes, impulsiveness and gender differences linked to drug use. Also risk and protective factors relative to drug use were in focus of interest. Method: High school pupils (n = 146), aged 17- 21 years, responded to the Adolescent Health and Development Inventory, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11) and Knowledge, and the Attitudes and Beliefs (KAB). Direct logistic, multiple regression analyses, and Multivariate Analysis of Variance were used to analyse the data. Results: Positive Attitudes towards drugs was predicted by risk factors, odds ratio = 37.31. Risk factors, odds ratio = 46.89, and positive attitudes towards drugs, odds ratio = 4.63, predicted drug usage. Family, friends and individual as risk factors was positively related to impulsiveness among drug users. Moreover, although males reported using drugs to a greater extent, but female expressed more positive attitude towards drugs and even reported more impulsiveness than male students. Conclusion: Positive attitudes towards drugs among adolescents seem to be part of a vicious circle including risk factors, such as friendly drug environments (e.g., friends who use drugs) and unsupportive family environments, and impulsiveness. Even pro-drug attitudes were interpreted as a sign of a social change defined as altered norms, values and symbols of the society. This study reinforces the idea that research must focus on gender differences relative to pro-drug attitudes along with testing for differences in the predictors of girls’ and boys’ delinquency and impulsiveness.

Age and Drug Use by Rural and Urban Adolescents

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wm. Alex McIntosh ◽  
Starla D. Fitch ◽  
Frank M. Staggs ◽  
Kenneth L. Nyberg ◽  
J. Branton Wilson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Illicit Drugs ◽  
Urban Adolescents ◽  
School Students ◽  
Black Females ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Curvilinear Relationships

This is a survey undertaken to assess the importance of age in determining the use of both conventional (licit) and deviant (illicit) drugs among junior and high school students in the Brazos Valley, Texas, in 1976. In addition the age-drug use relationships were examined in terms of the age, sex, and residence of the respondents. The results show that the use of conventional drugs (e.g., tobacco and alcohol) increases with age, but no such relationship obtains for deviant drugs. Curvilinear relationships are evidenced in the deviant drug-age relationships. Patterns of drug use appear to be characteristic by specific sex, racial, and residential subgroups. Black females, especially those from rural areas use deviant drugs such as hallucinogens, heroin, cocaine, and solvents at rates which equal or exceed the rates of other subgroups, but are 30 per cent less likely to use beer than urban white females.

The Nature and Extent of Drug Use among Students at a Comprehensive Suburban High School

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Paul Willson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
Intervention Strategies ◽  
Drug Prevention ◽  
School Students ◽  
Valuable Method ◽  
Cent Increase ◽  
School Curricula

This study is of particular significance for curriculum development in drug education. While describing the nature and extent of drug use among a sampling of high school students, and identifying variables which predict drug use, the study also offers a valuable method of determining the appropriate grade level placement of drug prevention and intervention strategies within the school curricula. The sample consisted of 455 students attending a comprehensive, multi-ethnic-economic, suburban high school. The data indicated the lowest incidence of drug use was among freshmen, with a 72 per cent increase among sophomores, and only significant change in mode of use and not amount among upperclassmen.

Dropouts: A Study of Drug Use

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Michael Winburn ◽  
J. Ray Hays
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
Grade Level ◽  
High School Dropouts ◽  
School Dropouts ◽  
School Students

A group of 144 high school dropouts were surveyed in an effort to study the prevalence and correlates of their drug use as compared to that of 2,277 high school students. Tobacco (74%) and alcohol (71%) were reported to be the most used of nine categories of substances included in the survey. Next highest categories of use were of marijuana (38%) and stimulants (31%). The category of drugs with the lowest overall reported use was opiates or cocaine, with 11.9 per cent of the dropouts reporting use. The results were reported according to grade level, sex, and ethnicity.

Tobacco and Other Drug Use among High School Students with Asthma

2006 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 291-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Everett Jones ◽  
Sarah Merkle ◽  
Lani Wheeler ◽  
David M. Mannino ◽  
Linda Crossett
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Drug Use ◽  
School Students
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