Risk Detection in Schools Instrument / Instrumento para la Deteccion de Riesgos en Escuelas

IDERE

Screening

Case detection

Illegal Drugs

To screen risks, signs and symptoms associated with drug use in the school community and to assess the priorities of intervention

Risk and protection factors of substance use, and signs and symptoms of substance use

2010

Prevention Directorate Centros de Integración Juvenil, A.C.

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It is a scale screening of 75 items, which is reliable and valid for timely identification, risk and protection factors associated with substance use in children and youth in school, and to detect early signs and symptoms caused by drug use in primary and secondary education. It has an area to detect violence as a predisposing factor in drug use.

Designed, built, piloted and validated in 2010

75

Self-registration, assisted, individual and group-referenced, administration time 25 minutes

Positive responses refer to the risk, whereas if "no" is selected there is no risk, except for the 31 negative statements to be encoded in reverse. There will have to be sums and averages made for each of the areas, according to cutoff points described in the corresponding section, in order to obtain the levels of risk by area and the general vulnerability index.

Elementary schools: fourth, fifth and sixth grade year and the three secondary grades.

Boys and young men and women between 10 and 15 years of age in school.

Sánchez A., León B., Guerrero A., Instrumento para la Detección de Riesgos en Escuelas (IDERE): Método de Aplicación y Análisis, Dirección de Prevención, Centros de Integración Juvenil, 2010