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Independent TEENSCREEN
Evaluation
Research Project
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Comments and tentative
conclusions by Eileen Dannemann,
director of the National Coalition of Organized
Women (NCOW)
ncowmail@aol.com
917 804-0786
www.ProgressiveConvergence.com
“In
our research and initial evaluation of the Teen
screen questionnaire we find a very interesting
omission: School children are being questioned
extensively about their use of street drugs but
no questions are being asked about the use of
prescription drugs.
Since it has been determined that more than 8
million children are on prescription drugs and
since these drugs such as the S.S.R.I.
(Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors) have
recently been linked to suicide and homicide, in
our opinion, its omission is gravely telling of
who is behind these initiatives”.
My comments are in blue
Our questions:
1.
Is there privacy protection?
2.
What persons and agencies have access to
these results?
3.
Is the name of the child being tested on
the test pages?
4.
What are the instructions to the child in
terms of privacy in answering the questions
particularly about recreational drug and alcohol
use?
5.
How is this survey assessed and measured?
By whom. By how many agencies. What is the
protocol?
6.
What are the qualifications of the
assessors?
7.
Is there a computerized assessment tool?
8.
How, by what means of measurement or
diagnostic tool is the subject categorized? What
is the protocol?
9.
Are there standard diagnostic labels
associated with question/answers
10.
Who is apprised first of the diagnosis?
What is the protocol thereafter?
11.
Is there a recommendation to seek
clinical evaluation? By whom to whom and
towards whom?
12.
Do (or will) agencies or schools or
govt. health or education programs provide funds
to guide or insure that children move towards
standard accepted medical care?
Diagnostic Predictive Scales DPS-8 (Youth)
This
interview (survey) is designed to be used by
qualified professional
(list the range of qualified professionals)
as an aid to diagnosis. It is not a substitute
for a thorough clinical evaluation.
(Will you be asked or required to send your
child to an approved American Medical
Association (AMA) or American Psychiatric
Association (APA) health professional with the
likelihood of prescribing drugs?)
1.
Are you a male or a female?
2.
How old are you?
3.
Are you Hispanic?
(Why is this culture
isolated?)
4.
Choose the category that best describes
your race:
White
Black/African
American
American
Indian/Alaska native
Asian
Mixed (more
than one race)
Other
5.
What grade are you in? (6th-12th
grade, not in school)
6.
Who spent the most time taking care of
you in the past 3 months:
Both parents
Mother, only
Father, only
Grandparents
(s)
Sister/brother
Aunt/uncle
Foster
parents
Other adult
7.
In the last three months did you have
trouble seeing the chalkboard?
8.
Do you wear glasses?
9.
Have you seen an eye doctor about this?
10.
In the last three months….did you have a
toothache?
11.
Have you seen a dentist about this? (Are
these questions (6 -10) a covert assessment of
parent’s fitness in supervising and caring for
their children? Can this survey be used against
parents by agencies such as the Human Health
Service (HHS)?)
SECTION A
12.
In the last three months….have you often
felt very nervous and uncomfortable when you
have been with a group of children…say, in the
lunchroom at school or at a party?
(Normal adolescent
behavior)
13.
Have you often felt very nervous when you
had to do things in front of people?
(Normal)
SECTION B
14.
For this question, I want to know if you
have ever had a sudden attack of feeling very
afraid. In the kind of attack, I mean someone
becomes very afraid even though there is nothing
around them to frighten them. Sometimes they
feel they can’t breathe…sometimes their heart
beats very fast. The attacks come on very
suddenly, then go away, but they get afraid that
the attacks might come back. In the last three
months have you had an attack when all of a
sudden you felt you were very afraid or
strange?
15.
Have you had a time when you were
suddenly feeling like you were suffocating or
you couldn’t breathe?
16.
Do you have asthma?
17.
The only time you felt afraid or couldn’t
breathe was when you were having an asthma
attack?
SECTION C
18.
In the last three months….Have often
worried a lot before you were going to play a
sport or game or some other activity Have you
had a lot of headaches?
(Normal)
19.
In the last three months have you had
other aches and pains?
(Sports, flu,
fibromyalgia, normal growing pains?)
20.
Are you the kind of person who is often
very tense, or finds it very hard to relax?
(In today’s
dysfunction family settings?)
SECTION D
21.
Some young people have times when one
thought comes into the mind over and over again.
When people have these thoughts they usually get
upset, because the thoughts are strange. No
matter how hard they try the thoughts keep on
coming back.
Now I am going
to ask you if you have had thoughts like these
in the last three months. Have you had to count
things over and over again? Or make yourself do
things a certain number of times?
22.
In the last three months…was there a time
when you washed your hands or body over and
over again or changed your clothes many times
each day because you thought they were dirty?
23.
Have you often felt you should check on
things over and over again? For example:
checking that the front door is locked…or the
stove is turned off or that something else was
done, though you knew it had been done?
(normal behavior as a
stand alone question)
24.
In the last three months….have you often worried
that things you touch are dirty or have germs?
(Normal
to say yes. Media of fear; TV advertising is
replete on antiseptic cleanliness products;
antiseptizing the kitchen for e-coli bacteria;
the bathroom, killing all bugs. We have
vaccines for everything, flu, hepatitis,
meningitis, HIV)
25.
Have you had any other thoughts that kept
coming into your mind over and over again that
you couldn’t get rid of?
26.
In the last three months…
Have you done
things like counting, checking, washing, over
and over again because you like to do these
things?
27.
Have you done these things like
counting, checking, washing, over and over
again, only because you’ve been told by someone
else to make sure that you’ve done them right?
28.
In the last three months…
Have you
wished you could stop yourself doing things
like counting, checking or washing over and
over again?
29.
Have you spent a lot of time each day
doing things like counting, checking or washing
over and over again…say, for as long as an hour?
SECTION E
30.
In the last three months…
Has there
been a time when nothing was fun for you and
you just weren’t interested in anything?
(normal these days
as contrast to TV-movie-video hyper
stimulation)
31.
Has there been a time when you had less energy
than you usually do?
(I feel this way)
32.
Has there been a time when you felt you couldn’t
do anything well or that you weren’t as
good-looking or as smart as other people?
(normal adolescence)
33.
In the last three months…
Has there
been a time when you thought seriously about
killing yourself? (I
did when I was a teenager…thinking my parents
would feel sorry, then…oh yes)
34.
Have you tried to kill yourself in the last year?
(Ask me when I was 14 years old, my parents
worked and my father cheated on my mother)
35.
Has there been a time when doing even the
little things made you feel really tired?
(most of the time)
36.
In the last three months…
Has there
been a time when you couldn’t thank as clearly
or as fast as usual?
(one time…would get an affirmative answer…many
kids smoke marijuana, party, even occasionally
…or go to bed late)
I have just
asked you about the last three months.
Now, I want you to think about the last year.
SECTION F
37.
The next questions are about you use of
alcohol-beer, wine, wine coolers, or hard
liquors like vodka, gin or whiskey. Each can or
bottle of beer, glass of wine or wine cooler,
shot of liquor, or mixed drink with liquor it it
counts as one drink.
In the last
year…Have you had six or more drinks?
(who hasn’t?)
38.
Did you get in trouble with the police
when you were drunk or because you had been
drinking? (more likely
than ever with homeland security)
39.
In the last years…
Did you get
into arguments with your family or friends
because of drinking?
(probably)
40.
Did you miss school to go drinking or because
you were hungover? (it
happens)
SECTION G
41.
In the last year…
Have you used
marijuana six or more times?
(good chance)
42.
Did you miss school to use marijuana or
because you were too high on marijuana to go to
school? (it happens)
43.
In the last year…
Did you get
into arguments with your friends and family
because you were using marijuana?
(good chance)
SECTION H
44.
Have you used any opiates to get high.
This includes things like codeine, Demerol,
morphine, percodan, methadone, Darvon, opium,
Delaudid, Talwin and so on.
In the last
year…
Have you used
any of these to get high?
45.
Have you used any kind of hallucinogen?
This includes LSD or “acid”, mescaline, peyote,
DMT, psilocybin and so on. Have you used one of
these?
46.
In the last year…
Have you used
stimulants or amphetamines…like speed, diet
pills, Benzedrine, methamphetamine or anything
like that to get high?
47.
Have you used cocaine or “crack”?
48.
In the last year…Have you used heroin?
49.
Have you used PCP or “Angel Dust”?
50.
In the last year…Have you used ecstasy?
51.
Have you used any inhalants…like glue,
cleaning fluid, gasoline or paint to get high?
52.
How often did your parents feel worried
or concerned about the way you were feeling or
acting?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
53.
Were they worried or concerned because
of:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
54.
How often did you parents get annoyed or
upset with you because of the way you were
feeling or acting?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
55.
Were they annoyed or upset because of:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
56.
How often were you not able to do things
or go places with your family because of the way
you felt or acted?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
57.
Were you not able to do things or go
places because:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
58.
How often did the way you were feeling or
acting make it difficult to do your schoolwork
or cause problems with your grades?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
59.
Did you have problems with your
schoolwork or grades because of:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
60.
How often were your teachers annoyed or
upset with you because of the way you were
feeling or acting?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
61.
Were you teachers annoyed or upset
because of:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
62.
How often did the way you were feeling or
acting make you feel bad or feel upset?
a.
A lot of the
time
b.
Some of the
time
c.
Hardly ever
d.
Not at all
63.
Did you feel bad or upset because of:
a.
You were
feeling anxious or worried?
b.
You were
feeling sad or depressed?
c.
Problems with
your behavior?
d.
Problems with
alcohol or drugs?
e.
Other things
you did?
64.
Have you been to see someone at a
hospital, or at a clinic because of the way you
were feeling or acting?
a.
yes
b.
no
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