The Development of Attitudinal Measures toward Alcohol Education in the School and in the Home

Abstract

Most alcohol education programs suffer from lack of thorough evaluation. In particular, programs concerned with attitudes and behavior regarding alcohol education itself are rarely assessed, one reason being the lack of user-validated evaluation instruments especially designed for this purpose. As part of a project with the Massachusetts Parent-Teacher-Student Association, a series of alcohol education seminars for parents was conducted in order to develop, pre-test, and test an Alcohol Education Attitudes Questionnaire which can be used in a variety of contexts for evaluating the attitudes of parents, teachers, students, and others toward alcohol education in the school and in the home. A copy of the Questionnaire is provided.