Creciendo Saludable, a school-based student assistance program, is designed to prevent the development of health and behavioral problems among Latino school-aged youth. The program's outcome evaluation involves collecting measures from both a universal and a targeted sample. The universal sample includes all students, third to seventh grade, from six different school sites. Obtaining active parental consent for student surveys has presented a challenge to researchers as well as to this project. With active consent being required, high consent return rates are crucial in order to ensure an adequate sample size for statistical analysis. Creciendo Saludable has utilized innovative methods and strategies to achieve an overall consent return rate of 85% and a survey rate of 73% over three years of the project. This paper will discuss barriers encountered in obtaining active parental consent and in survey group administrations to limited English speaking students. Strategies and protocols developed to stimulate high return rates on active parental consents and to efficiently administer student surveys to a limited English speaking student population will also be outlined. The students were administered The American Drug Alcohol Survey (ADAS), Individual Protective Factor Index (IPFI), and Positive Behavior Index (PBI).
Learning Objectives: Session participants will be able to: 1. Define limitations of obtaining active parental consent and of administering group student surveys to a primarily limited-English speaking (Latino) school-aged population. 2. Identify effective strategies to achieve high "active" consent return rates. 3. Construct methods of administering group surveys to limited English speaking elementary and middle school students.
Keywords: Data Collection, Survey
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