Background The local Office of UNODC together with the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration coordinates in Nigeria a large scale project funded by the European Union (project FED/2012/306-744) to promote healthy lifestyles in schools, families and communities through the adoption of effective prevention programs. Unplugged has been chosen as effective intervention to be implemented and evaluated in the school setting. A pilot phase has been organized to test the program and the evaluation instruments. The results of the pilot phase will help to identify logistical, technical and other kind of problems to be addressed in the evaluation phase. Methods For the pilot test, the Piedmont Centre for Drug Addiction Epidemiology staff, responsible for the evaluation of Unplugged in the Nigerian study, slightly modified the study questionnaire previously used in the EUDAP trials, in order to make it applicable to the Nigerian context. Some questions were deleted to shorten the questionnaire. The pilot was conducted in 2 classes (48 + 49 pupils), in a school of Abuja (Federal Capital Territory). The pupils were also requested to fill in a form listing the main problems they encountered in answering the questions. The data entry was conducted centrally in Piedmont Centre for Drug Addiction Epidemiology by using an online mask. Results 97 pupils filled the questionnaire: 57.7% were males and 41.2% females; 8.2% were thirteen years old, 37.1% fourteen, 39.2% fifteen and 15.5% sixteen years old. More than 77% of the pupils lived with both parents. Only 13% declare his/her family did not have a car. Only 4.1% of students reported to have smoked cigarettes in their lifetime and 1.0% smoked during the last 30 days. The percentage of students who consumed alcohol during their lifetime was 23.7%, and 5.2% during the last 30 days. Five percent of students reported to have been drunk in their lifetime and 2.1% during the last 30 days. As regards drug use (excluding cannabis), the percentage of students who used it in their lifetime was 5.1%, 1.0% during the last 30 days. No students declared to have used cannabis in lifetime, nor in the last 30 days. The main problems in filling the questionnaire declared by the local researchers and by the pupils regarded the anonymous code. All the difficulties noticed have been taken into account to finalize the questionnaire. Specific notes have been added to make easier the completion of the anonymous code and the list of latin letters has been added to reduce the errors in the interpretation of the handwriting. Conclusions From the preliminary results of the pilot phase the consumption of tobacco and drugs appear to be very little among Nigerian teenagers. Results of the pilot phase were taken into account to finalize the evaluation questionnaire and the study procedures.
Piloting a questionnaire on knowledge, attitudes and behaviours on tobacco, alcohol and drugs among Nigerian students: difficulties and first results
ALESINA, MARTA;VIGNA-TAGLIANTI, Federica;
2015-01-01
Abstract
Background The local Office of UNODC together with the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration coordinates in Nigeria a large scale project funded by the European Union (project FED/2012/306-744) to promote healthy lifestyles in schools, families and communities through the adoption of effective prevention programs. Unplugged has been chosen as effective intervention to be implemented and evaluated in the school setting. A pilot phase has been organized to test the program and the evaluation instruments. The results of the pilot phase will help to identify logistical, technical and other kind of problems to be addressed in the evaluation phase. Methods For the pilot test, the Piedmont Centre for Drug Addiction Epidemiology staff, responsible for the evaluation of Unplugged in the Nigerian study, slightly modified the study questionnaire previously used in the EUDAP trials, in order to make it applicable to the Nigerian context. Some questions were deleted to shorten the questionnaire. The pilot was conducted in 2 classes (48 + 49 pupils), in a school of Abuja (Federal Capital Territory). The pupils were also requested to fill in a form listing the main problems they encountered in answering the questions. The data entry was conducted centrally in Piedmont Centre for Drug Addiction Epidemiology by using an online mask. Results 97 pupils filled the questionnaire: 57.7% were males and 41.2% females; 8.2% were thirteen years old, 37.1% fourteen, 39.2% fifteen and 15.5% sixteen years old. More than 77% of the pupils lived with both parents. Only 13% declare his/her family did not have a car. Only 4.1% of students reported to have smoked cigarettes in their lifetime and 1.0% smoked during the last 30 days. The percentage of students who consumed alcohol during their lifetime was 23.7%, and 5.2% during the last 30 days. Five percent of students reported to have been drunk in their lifetime and 2.1% during the last 30 days. As regards drug use (excluding cannabis), the percentage of students who used it in their lifetime was 5.1%, 1.0% during the last 30 days. No students declared to have used cannabis in lifetime, nor in the last 30 days. The main problems in filling the questionnaire declared by the local researchers and by the pupils regarded the anonymous code. All the difficulties noticed have been taken into account to finalize the questionnaire. Specific notes have been added to make easier the completion of the anonymous code and the list of latin letters has been added to reduce the errors in the interpretation of the handwriting. Conclusions From the preliminary results of the pilot phase the consumption of tobacco and drugs appear to be very little among Nigerian teenagers. Results of the pilot phase were taken into account to finalize the evaluation questionnaire and the study procedures.
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