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• TITLE: Prescription Drug Attitudes Questionnaire: Development and Validation

  AUTHORS: Jamie S. Bodenlos, Andrew Malordy, Marleah Noonan, Aubreyanne Mayrsohn, Brian Mistler

  KEYWORDS: Drugs, Attitudes, Prescriptions, Scale Development, Psychometrics

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.5 No.14, September 30, 2014

  ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a scale measuring attitudes towards prescription drug use for nonmedical reasons. Participants (N = 310) were recruited from a small northeastern college and completed the Prescription Drugs Attitudes Questionnaire (PDAQ), the College Alcohol Problems Scale (CAPS-R) and answered questions about current substance use. Principal components analysis of the PDAQ yielded a two-factor structure accounting for 58.2% of the total variance in attitudes toward prescription drugs where the factors represented items concerning Recreational and Achievement-Oriented attitudes. The PDAQ had good internal consistency (.94) and convergent validity with a measure of alcohol problems (r = .37), alcohol use (r = .44), and illicit drug use (r = .36). The PDAQ is a reliable and valid scale that can be used by researchers and clinicians to understand and prevent prescription drug abuse among youth.