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Attitudes Towards Drug Use Questionnaire
Dimension: Risk factors start consumption
Area
Personal
Specificity
Unspecified: Drugs and other risky behaviours
Year
1990
Author
Escámez & García
Identification and Classification
- Instrument
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Attitudes Towards Drug Use Questionnaire
- Acronym
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CA
- Area
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Personal
- Dimension
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Risk factors start consumption
- Specificity
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Unspecified: Drugs and other risky behaviours
- Objective
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Assess the attitudinal tendency towards drug use
- Factors it measures
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Attitude towards drug use
- Year
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1990
- Author
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Escámez & García
- Author Contact Data
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Escámez, Juan
Universidad de Valencia
E-mail: juan.escamez@uv.es
- Availability
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Commercial use
- Link
Description
- Abstract
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CA is an assessment test for the measurement of attitudes toward drug use. To do this, a total of 23 items are used that are answered on a Likert scale.
- Psychometric characteristics
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In studies of application of the questionnaire in the Spanish adolescent population, internal consistency indices have been satisfactory (Cronbach's alpha: .77), as well as, the variance explained (47.77%)
- No. of items
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It consists of 23 items that are answered on a Likert scale with five answer options
- Duration
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10 min
- Way of administration
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- Individual and collective
- Paper
- Way of qualification
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By means of the summation of the scores, an attitude attitudinal trend indicator is obtained
- Application context
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Clinic / School
- Population
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Adolescence
- References
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Escámez, J., & García, R. (1990). Actitudes de los alumnos de E.G.B. ante las drogas. En J. Escámez et al. (Eds.), Drogas y escuela. Una propuesta de prevención (pp. 105-119). Madrid: Dykinson.