Survey of Substance Use among High School Students in Taipei: Web-based Questionnaire versus Paper-and-pencil Questionnaire
Date Issued
2004
Date
2004
Author(s)
Wang, Yi-Ching
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Objective: To evaluate whether a web-based self-administered questionnaire (web SAQ) can help to improve the reporting rate of substance use and stressful life events in adolescents as compared with the paper-and-pencil self-administered questionnaire (paper SAQ) via a randomized trial.
Methods: Students of the junior high, senior high, and vocational high schools in Taipei City and County were selected by a stratified, two-stage, probability proportional to size, random sampling. For each class selected, half of the students were randomly assigned to paper SAQ (n=990) and the other half to web SAQ (n=928). The inverse of the sampling probability for each individual was then used as sampling weight in the estimation of prevalence and logistic regression analysis.
Results: For readily available substance, the lifetime prevalence for the group of web SAQ was significantly higher in alcohol drinking and borderline higher in tobacco and betel nut use as compared with that for the group of paper SAQ. For illicit drug use, the lifetime prevalence for the group of web SAQ was significantly higher in use of amphetamine, and borderline higher in ketamine. In multiple logistic regression analysis, the difference between the two groups in alcohol drinking and amphetamine use remained significant. For each of four types of life events, respondents who were administered with web SAQ had significantly more reporting than those with paper SAQ. Boys and junior high, vocational high school students who were administered with web SAQ were more likely to report substance use and life events than those with paper SAQ.
Conclusions: Web SAQ leads to higher reporting rates of readily available substances, illicit drugs, and life events in adolescents as compared with those of paper SAQ.
Subjects
紙筆版問卷
物質使用
學校調查
青少年
網路版問卷
生活事件
paper-and-pencil questionnaire
substance use
school survey
web-based questionnaire
adolescents
life events
Type
thesis
File(s)![Thumbnail Image]()
Loading...
Name
ntu-93-R91842016-1.pdf
Size
23.31 KB
Format
Adobe PDF
Checksum
(MD5):d9017ccdee3d677fd9370ff364b39836