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

Attitude and Perceived Risk of Harm from MarijuanaFigures 21 and 22 show outcomes for individual attitudes and perceived risk of harmfrom marijuana use by program, presenting the percentages of participants withfavorable and unfavorable outcomes for each program group. Favorable outcomesmean that attitudes changed in the desired direction (grew more negative towardmarijuana use, e.g., respondent disapproved of marijuana use at pre-test and stronglydisapproved at post-test), or that the pre- and post-test responses remained the sameand were negative toward marijuana use; unfavorable outcomes mean that attitudesgrew more positive toward marijuana use from pre-test to post-test (i.e., respondentstrongly disapproved of marijuana use at pre-test and didn’t disapprove at post-test), orthat the pre- and post-test responses remained the same and were positive towardmarijuana use.Figure 21. Attitudes Toward Marijuana Use1009080706050403020100LST (Year 1) LST (Year 2) LST (Year 3) TNDFavorable 92.5 92.0 91.4 75.9Unfavorable 7.6 8.0 8.6 24.1Percentage of RespondentsDo you disapprove of someone your age smokingmarijuana regularly?Jackson County GRAA Evaluation Report 43