Pritchard C, Cotton A, Cox M
Department of Social Work Studies, University of Southampton, Highfield, U.K.
J Adolesc. 1992 Mar;15(1):1-17. doi: 10.1016/0140-1971(92)90061-9.
In a sample of 932 4th & 5th year comprehensive school adolescents, 41% had truanted in the current term. The truants, compared with their non-truanting peers, had three times the level of solvent misuse (14% compared with 4%), thrice the soft drug misuse (19% compared with 6%), and four times the involvement with hard drugs (9% compared with 2%). Truants were significantly more involved with other problematic behaviour and were found to score higher on all negative social indices, including parents who smoked. Despite the sample's relatively accurate knowledge about drugs and HIV infection, truants scored less well on these and other HIV-related issues. An extrapolation of the results indicates a significant number of adolescents at risk demanding urgent policy initiatives.
在一个由932名四、五年级综合学校青少年组成的样本中，41%的学生在本学期逃学。与未逃学的同龄人相比，逃学者的溶剂滥用水平是其三倍（14%对4%），软性毒品滥用是其三倍（19%对6%），涉及硬性毒品的比例是其四 倍（9%对2%）。逃学者明显更多地参与其他问题行为，并且在所有负面社会指标上得分更高，包括父母吸烟的情况。尽管样本对毒品和艾滋病毒感染有相对准确的了解，但逃学者在这些以及其他与艾滋病毒相关的问题上得分较低。结果推断表明，有相当数量的青少年处于危险之中，需要紧急的政策举措。
