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Table 4 Drug use at six month follow-up: Comparison of means between treatment and control groups.

From: The NARCONON™ drug education curriculum for high school students: A non-randomized, controlled prevention trial

 

Control Group N = 420

Drug Ed Group N = 389

Direction of difference

Significance Level df = 11

Drug Use Variable

Mean

Mean

 

F

p valuea

B1 Cigarettes (frequency)

1.34

1.26

Positive

3.35

<0.001

B2 Smokeless tobacco

1.34

1.26

Positive

3.39

<0.001

B3 Cigarettes (amt. smoked)

1.49

1.35

Positive

3.89

<0.001

B4 Alcohol

1.57

1.41

Positive

1.87

0.040

B5 Being drunk

1.43

1.24

Positive

1.69

0.073

B6 Marijuana

1.30

1.18

Positive

2.28

0.010

B7 Marijuana (amt. smoked)

1.18

1.13

Positive

2.12

0.017

B8 Sniffed glue

1.13

1.06

Positive

0.86

0.584

B9 LSD

1.05

1.04

Positive

1.12

0.339

B10 Amphetamines

1.11

1.07

Positive

2.35

0.008

B11 Crack

1.06

1.03

Positive

0.681

0.758

B12 Cocaine

1.08

1.03

Positive

0.97

0.471

B13 Tranquiller

1.09

1.06

Positive

0.73

0.710

B14 Barbiturates

1.10

1.05

Positive

1.07

0.380

B15 Crystal Meth

1.07

1.04

Positive

1.12

0.273

B16 Amphetamine w/o Rx

1.09

1.03

Positive

1.59

0.098

B17 Heroin

1.04

1.03

Positive

0.327

0.980

B18 Other Narcotics

1.06

1.04

Positive

1.13

0.335

B19 Ecstasy

1.05

1.03

Positive

.97

0.475

B20 Roofies

1.03

1.03

Zero

1.19

0.287

B21 GHB

1.02

1.04

Negative

2.39

0.006

B22 Super K

1.02

1.02

Zero

1.96

0.030

  1. aControlling for baseline differences by using an analysis of covariance with a Type III sums of squares