2006 Primary Prevention Awareness, Attitude, and Use Survey

Sources of Prevention Information and Skills

(PPAAUS items 121-127)

Effects
An average of 68 percent of the Franklin County Schools middle-school students and 75 percent of the high-school students had learned about the effects of using alcohol, tobacco and other drugs from a D.A.R.E. officer. Forty-four percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 66 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders had learned about the effects of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs from a health teacher; 15 percent and 12 percent respectively from a guidance counselor. Parents were a source of information about the effects of substances for 57 percent of the middle-school students and 64 percent of the high-school students. An average of 19 percent of all students indicated that they had learned about the effects of substances from a source other than D.A.R.E., a health teacher, a guidance counselor, or a parent.

Decision Making
An average of 39 percent of the sixth through eighth graders had been taught about how to make decisions by a D.A.R.E. officer, 20 percent by a health teacher, and 16 percent by a guidance counselor. Twenty-nine percent of the high-school students had learned decision-making skills from a D.A.R.E. officer, 27 percent from a health teacher, and 19 percent from a guidance counselor. An average of 67 percent of the middle-school students and 76 percent of the high-school students had been taught how to make decisions by their parents. Twenty-one percent of all students said someone other than the four previously mentioned sources had taught them decision-making skills.

Assertiveness
Twenty-eight percent of the students in grades six through eight and 24 percent in grades nine through twelve had been taught by a D.A.R.E. officer how to stand up for what they believe. Fourteen percent and 15 percent respectively were taught assertiveness by a health teacher; 20 percent and 15 percent by a guidance counselor; and 72 percent and 79 percent by parents. An average of 26 percent of all students learned assertiveness from a source other than a D.A.R.E. officer, a health teacher, a guidance counselor, or a parent.

Refusal Skills
A D.A.R.E. officer was cited as a resource for information about how to refuse offers to use drugs by 63 percent of the middle-school students and 68 percent of the high-school students. An average of 34 percent of the sixth through eighth graders had been taught refusal skills by a health teacher, 17 percent by a guidance counselor, and 58 percent by parents. An average of 45 percent of the high-school students had learned refusal-skill techniques from a health teacher, 12 percent by a guidance counselor, and 60 percent by parents. Nineteen percent of all Franklin County Schools students surveyed indicated that one of their sources for refusal-skill information was someone other than the four specifically mentioned sources.

Stress Management
Twenty-four percent of the Franklin County Schools sixth through eighth graders and 17 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders named a D.A.R.E. officer as a source for information about how to deal with stress. An average of 34 percent of the middle-school students and 44 percent of the high-school students had learned stress-management skills from a health teacher, and 26 and 23 percent respectively from a guidance counselor. Parents had taught an average of 54 percent of the middle-school students and 57 percent of the high-school students how to deal with stress. Twenty-five percent of all Franklin County Schools students reported that they had learned how to deal with stress from another source.

Getting Along With Others
An average of 16 percent of the students in grades six through eight and 12 percent in grades nine through twelve had learned about making friends and getting along with people from a D.A.R.E. officer. Fourteen percent of the middle-school students and 14 percent of the high-school students been taught how to get along with others by a health teacher; Twenty-five percent of the middle-school students and 17 percent of the high-school students had been taught about making friends by a guidance counselor. Parents were named a source of information by 67 percent of the sixth through eighth graders and 69 percent of the ninth through twelfth graders. An average of 34 percent of the students indicated that they had been taught how to make friends and get along with people by some other resource.

Diversity
A D.A.R.E. officer was cited by 18 percent of the middle-school students and 13 percent of the high-school students as someone who had taught them “how to appreciate people different from yourself.” An average of 15 percent of the middle-school students and 15 percent of the high-school students had learned about diversity from a health teacher, and 24 percent and 17 percent respectively from a guidance counselor. Seventy-one percent of the students in grades six through eight and 74 percent in grades nine through twelve had been taught about diversity by parents. An average of 33 percent of all Franklin County Schools students had learned diversity from a source other than a D.A.R.E. officer, a health teacher, a guidance counselor, or a parent.


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