Regional Trends and Sex Differences of Drug Use and Attitudes of High School Students in Northeast OHIO 1977

Regional Trends and Sex Differences of Drug Use and Attitudes of High School Students in Northeast OHIO 1977–1983

Published:1985-09 Issue:3 Volume:15 Page:241-251
ISSN:0047-2379
Container-title:Journal of Drug Education
language:en
Short-container-title:J Drug Educ

Author:

Pascale Pietro J.¹,Trucksis Fred E.²,Sylvester Joseph²

Affiliation:

1. Youngstown State University, Chemical Awareness and Counseling Center, Trumbull County, Ohio

2. Chemical Awareness and Counseling Center, Trumbull County, Ohio

Abstract

This study presents trend analyses of data collected from three large scale surveys using the same instrument during the years 1977, 1980, and 1983. The sampled cohort groups consisted of eleventh grade students from various high schools in Northeast Ohio. Frequency of usage, reason for taking drugs, and perceived harmfulness of thirteen categories of drugs are presented and compared with national trend data. Trend data are also presented for age of first experimentation with drugs and for several questions about drug use in the elementary grades. Sex differences in trends for all questionnaire items are analyzed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health,General Medicine,Health (social science),Medicine (miscellaneous)

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2190/NCE6-RHA9-N5DJ-UK58

Reference7 articles.

1. A Computer Program for Nonparametric Trend Analysis of k = 3 or k = 4 Independent Samples

2. Some Traditional Family Variables and Their Correlations with Drug Use among High School Students

3. How well does number of parents explain unique variance in self-reported drug use?

Cited by 7 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. Adolescents' Cannabis Knowledge and Risk Perception: A Systematic Review;Journal of Adolescent Health;2024-03

2. How Beliefs about Substance Use Differ by Socio-Demographic Characteristics, Individual Experiences, and Neighborhood Environments among Urban Adolescents;Journal of Drug Education;2002-12

3. "Girls are retarded when they're stoned." Marijuana and the construction of gender roles among adolescent females;Sex Roles;1999

4. Gender Differences and Similarities in Patterns of Drug Use and Attitudes of High School Students;Journal of Drug Education;1993-03

5. Ten-Year Trends in At-Risk Behaviors;Journal of Adolescent Research;1989-04