| This is a short overview of a questionnaire used | | | | drinking alcohol and drug use acceptance. |
| for substance abuse attitude testing in testing a | | | | The sample questions may be found at [ but |
| CREATE (Curriculum Renewal and Evaluation of | | | | unfortunately there is no place on the Net where |
| Addiction Training and Education) effects on | | | | the full form of this substance abuse attitude |
| Medical Students. My afterthoughts on substance | | | | testing sheet is available to download. |
| abuse attitude testing are in the end of the article. | | | | Afterthoughts |
| The survey overview | | | | What were the effects of the survey? Almost |
| Questions 1-8 check the comfort level of a | | | | none. It seems (as other uses of this |
| respondent. | | | | questionnaire shows) that short term courses on |
| Questions 9-38 deal with general attitudes. | | | | the effects of drug abuse changes nothing is |
| Questions 39-51 deal students' attitudes to | | | | perception of this problem. Maybe somebody |
| pregnancy. | | | | should think of some better way to spend money |
| In the first part of this substance abuse attitude | | | | on drug use prevention? Some long-term courses |
| testing sheet students had to answer to several | | | | or mandatory long-term help programs that deal |
| question concerning the level of comfort when | | | | with drug addicts' may be one of the solutions, |
| asking patients about various kinds of addictions | | | | but it is possible that we have to use some very |
| (smoking, alcohol and drug) and talking about their | | | | different approach to changing people's attitude |
| effects. The second part deals mostly with | | | | toward substance abuse, the one that will leave |
| students' view of illicit substances abuse in their | | | | short-term courses and leaflets in favor of |
| neighborhood and at work as well as their opinions | | | | something else. But what would it be, I honestly |
| on personal effects of drug abusing. | | | | don't know. |
| The first part of this substance abuse attitude | | | | If you happen to have any idea on this subject, |
| test was the most important in the whole survey | | | | publish it. I've been looking for publications on this |
| for it checked the students' attitudes to | | | | subject for a long time, but I was unable to find |
| pregnancy and substances abuse and their | | | | anything worthy of noticing. |
| tolerance to them. Questions included smoking, | | | | |