0.2 Assessing youth attitudes

Guidelines for the surveys

This next section includes several surveys, touching on all aspects of student life in and beyond classrooms, in families, insocial settings, and in privacy. The surveys have been assembled to assist developing country researchers in knowing the students they teach and indesigning programs and curricula that make an impact. The surveys contain a wealth of questions obtained from several different existing surveys onadolescent reproductive health.

The questions are sorted into sections, which were chosen to reflect the wide range of adolescent reproductive health issues.Like all surveys, questions should be adapted to local contexts.

PLEASE VIEW THE SURVEYS AS LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES, RATHER THAN OBLIGATIONS OR DATA GATHERING. USE THEM AS KEYS TO DESIGNING APROGRAM THAT FITS YOUR NEEDS.

The categories may appear to overlap. Please review related sections to find the questions you need.

There are THREE ways in which you can send your responses to your HIV-AIDS Mentor.

• Copy and paste or retype the questions to a file and send them to your instructor via email. The email address is:hiv@teacherswithoutborders.org.
• Upload the file to your Personal File Storage. To do so, save this as a Word file (doc) or a txt file (txt). When you log on as a Learner to theHIV-AIDS for Educators course, you'll see a place where you can upload files to your instructor. If you need more instructions about this,please click on Outline and view the section: "How To Use Your Personal File Storage."
• You can send the survey in the post to the following address:

HIV-AIDS Mentor

Teachers Without Borders

2880 74th Avenue, S.E.

Mercer Island, WA 98040 U.S.A.

Students and risk

Included in this section on Risk Behaviors are 3 surveys. These 3 surveys must be conducted in an honest, confidentialatmosphere. Students must be assured that the information collected SHALL NOT be used against individuals.

No information will be used against anyone else they mention. All of these surveys are only a general measure of how a givencommunity can assess the knowledge and behavior base of a community. With good information in hand, then a community can build the kind of successfulprogram that will stem the tide HIV-AIDS in their community.

Survey 1: Smoking, Drugs, and Alcohol (online)

Smoking, Drugs, and Alcohol

Survey 2: Risk Behaviors (online)

Risk Behaviors

Survey 3: Delinquency (online)

Delinquency

Sending responses to twb

There are THREE ways in which you can send your responses to your HIV-AIDS Mentor or TWB.

• Copy and paste or retype the questions to a file and send them to your instructor via email. The email address is:hiv@teacherswithoutborders.org.
• Upload the file to your Personal File Storage. To do so, save this as a Word file (doc) or a txt file (txt). When you log on as a Learner to theHIV-AIDS for Educators course, you'll see a place where you can upload files to your instructor. If you need more instructions about this,please click on Outline and view the section: "How To Use Your Personal File Storage."
• You can send the survey in the post to the following address: