An Overview of School Survey Results in Slovakia and Bratislava

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Zuzana Panisova, presenter

The European School Survey on Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs (ESPAD), carried out in April 1995, was the first survey of its kind administered to secondary school students in Slovakia. Similar surveys have been completed in more than 20 European countries. The Slovak version of ESPAD was given to a sample of 14- to 18-year-olds in 17 gymnasiums, 26 secondary industrial schools and 42 secondary technical schools. A total of 8,295 survey responses were tallied.

The results of the survey indicated that the number of adolescent drug users in Slovakia is increasing, the age of first experience with legal drugs (i.e. alcohol and tobacco) is declining, and that teens are frequently experimenting with illegal drugs, particularly marijuana. In December 1996, the ESPAD survey was again administered to a sample of 1,155 Bratislava students.

In the fall of 1996, a similar survey was implemented by the Institute of Public Research, with aid from the Statistical Office of the Slovak Republic and the Chief Office of the Ministry for Drug Dependencies and Drug Control. The presentation will discuss the results of this survey, which measured drug, alcohol and tobacco use among the Slovak population during 1994 and 1995.

Zuzana Panisova, JuDr., is director of the Office of the Ministry for Drug Dependencies and Drug Control for Slovakia.

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