Adolescent Substance Abuse in Mexico, Puerto Rico and The United States: Effect of Anonymous versus Confidential Survey Formats

Autor/inn/en	Latimer, William W.; O'Brien, Megan S.; Vasquez, Marco A.; Medina-Mora, Maria Elena; Rios-Bedoya, Carlos F.; Floyd, Leah J.
Titel	Adolescent Substance Abuse in Mexico, Puerto Rico and The United States: Effect of Anonymous versus Confidential Survey Formats
Quelle	In: Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 16 (2006) 1, S.69-89 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1067-828X
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Substance Abuse; Foreign Countries; Confidentiality; Surveys; Cross Cultural Studies; Drinking; Marijuana; Measurement Techniques; Data Collection; Longitudinal Studies; Comparative Analysis; Mexico; Puerto Rico; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Drug use; Drug consomption; Drogenkonsum; Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Trinken; Messtechnik; Data capture; Datensammlung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Mexiko; USA
Abstract	Anonymous surveys have been widely used worldwide to describe adolescent substance use yet cannot elucidate causal drug abuse predictors. Studies in the U.S. have generally found that anonymous and confidential surveys yield comparable levels of self-reported substance use, yet the effect of survey format on youth self-report has not been evaluated in other countries. The present study compared data from the confidential International Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health with anonymously collected survey data on alcohol and marijuana use among school-based youth in Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. The findings suggest that confidential surveys yield valid self-reports of adolescent substance use. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10