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Impaired Driving Attitude and Behavior Survey To determine if your impaired driving prevention efforts result in changes in behavior or attitudes you need to start with baseline data. This data will give you a picture of what your campus looks like right now. By collecting this data every year, or every two years, you will be able to identify if behavior and attitudes are changing. A Word of Advice Be sure you gain approval for a survey before implementing it. On some campuses the group that reviews surveys and decides if they can be used is called the Internal Review Board (IRB) or Human Subjects Committee (HSC). This group may be housed in the following departments on campus:
However, your campus may not have a formal IRB/HSC, and instead you may need to contact your Dean of Students Office, Registrar, or Provost's Office to gain permission to implement a survey. Depending on your process, gaining approval to implement a survey can take anywhere from two weeks to two months! Be sure to build this step into your planning. Surveys You have some options for gathering information from students. Ideally, you would survey students with an impaired driving survey in order to gain the most information about the subject. The BACCHUS Network™ created a survey for this purpose: The Collegiate Impaired Driving Behavior and Attitude Survey (CIDBAS). This survey focuses on students' alcohol and other drug use as it relates to driving impaired or riding with an impaired driver. It also gathers information about students' attitudes and perceptions of impaired driving prevention policies and activities. Once completed, the CIDBAS provides campuses with information concerning student behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions surrounding the following issues:
The CIDBAS is designed to keep responses confidential and therefore cannot and should not be seen as a diagnostic tool toward treatment. For more information on the Collegiate Impaired Driving Behavior and Attitude Survey, contact The BACCHUS Network™ at (303) 871-0901 or email ann@bacchusnetwork.org. More Surveys If you decide not to use BACCHUS's CIDBAS, you still will want to collect some baseline data in order to measure your progress. The following surveys have a few questions about alcohol/other drugs and driving built into their questionnaires:
In addition, on some surveys you are able to add a few questions specific to your campus. You may want to consider adding impaired driving related questions, particularly questions about students' attitudes and perceptions of impaired driving, to these already existing surveys. |
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