Jackson County Program Evaluation Project Year 3, Report 1.pdf

Figure 3. Percentage of Youth Reporting Disapproval of Alcohol UseLifeSkills TrainingFirst Year(N = 417)LifeSkills TrainingSecond Year(N = 211)LifeSkills TrainingThird Year(N = 83)Project TowardsNo Drug Abuse(N = 501)Percentage of youthreporting that theyeither disapprove orstrongly disapproveof someone their agedrinking one or twodrinks of alcoholnearly every day.Pre-TestChangePre-TestChangePre-TestChangePre-TestChange89.69 +2.64 90.52 +0.95 83.13 +2.41 73.25 +3.40Figure 4 on page 8 shows outcomes by program for participants’ attitudes about alcoholuse, presenting the percentages of participants with favorable and unfavorableoutcomes for each program group. (Note: Figures 19 through 22 in Appendix 2 showchange in individual attitudes from the pre-test to the post-test by program for tobaccoand marijuana.) Favorable outcomes mean that attitudes changed in the desireddirection from pre-test to post-test (e.g., respondent did not disapprove of alcohol use atpre-test but disapproved at post-test) or remained the same and were negative towardalcohol use. Unfavorable outcomes mean that attitudes did not change in the desireddirection from pre-test to post-test (i.e., respondent felt alcohol use was a little wrong atpre-test and not wrong at all at post-test) or that the pre-test and post-test responsesremained the same and were positive toward alcohol use.Jackson County GRAA Evaluation Report 7