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Health Education Research Advance Access originally published online on October 17, 2007
Health Education Research 2008 23(4):682-696; doi:10.1093/her/cym036
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Do adolescents perceive police officers as credible instructors of substance abuse prevention programs?

Augustine Hammond1,2,*,{dagger}, Zili Sloboda2, Peggy Tonkin2, Richard Stephens2, Brent Teasdale2,3, Scott F. Grey2,4 and Joseph Williams2

1 Department of Political Science, Augusta State University, Augusta, GA 30904, USA
2 Institute for Health and Social Policy, The University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325, USA
3 Department of Sociology, The University of Akron, Akron, OH, 44325, USA
4 Department of Family Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA

* Correspondence to: A. Hammond. E-mail: ahammon3{at}aug.edu

Although program recipients’ attitudes toward instructors are crucial to program outcomes, they have not been adequately examined in the substance abuse prevention literature. This study uses survey data to explore attitudes toward instructors of prevention programming held by students from a national longitudinal evaluation of a school-based substance abuse prevention program delivered by Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) officers. Our analyses indicated that students who had police officers as instructors evaluated program instructors significantly higher than students who had non-police officers as instructors. The evaluation of police instructors varied according to students’ sociodemographic characteristics. Implications for future research and practice are considered.

{dagger} Worked at the Institute for Health and Social Policy of The University of Akron at the time the manuscript was being prepared.

Received on April 3, 2006; accepted on June 7, 2007


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