The Effects of Drug Education Programs on Attitude Change

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of drug education programs as a means of changing attitudes. Four major United States cities served as the experimental group. A completely randomized 2 × 4 factorial design was used to test the hypothesis. No significance was found at the .05 level indicating that presently drug education programs are not significantly effective in changing attitudes toward drug abuse. This was true for all four cities studied despite the light variations in their programs (cities x programs interaction, F = .02, 3, 8 df). Due to a lack of available data it was impossible to have a control group. It was concluded that future research is needed to determine if drug education programs are an effective means of changing attitudes.

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