Developing a Scale to Determine the Awareness Levels of University Students for Substance Use

The aim of this study is to develop a scale in order to determine the awareness levels of university students towards drug use. There is no scale to determine the level of awareness of university students about drug abuse in Turkey To improve scale, a pool of questions has been created primarily. The 70 questions in the question pool were sent to 20 experts in the field. In the expert opinion form developed by Lawshe, each item is given options that are appropriate, viable and not appropriate. According to expert opinions, the CVI index values of each item was calculated and the final form of the pool of questions were prepared with a draft questionnaire of 57 questions. The survey was applied to 1031 people who were students in the 2019-2020 academic year of Sivas Cumhuriyet University. As a result of the application of clarifying factor analysis during the scale development phase, a structure consisting of 5 factors and 28 substances that explain 48% of the total variance was obtained. It was observed that the model was well-matched by subsequent confirmatory factor analysis for the scale. In the study, the total Cronbach α value of the scale was found to be 0.880. This research showed that this scale, developed to determine the level of awareness of drug use among university students, is accurate and reliable and that the scale can be used in field-related studies

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  Open Access•C H Lawshe•Personnel Psychology•1975

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