Cortland Counts: An Assessment of Health and Well Being in Cortland County NY
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Section 3: Report of Findings

VII. Health and Safety

Table HS-25: Cortland County Eighth Grade Survey Results: January 1996, 1998 and 2000*

 

The following table shows the results of three rounds of surveys done over the past five years in the local schools. Zero Adolescent Pregnancy or ZAP! sponsored this research done by an outside evaluator. ZAP is Cortland's award winning teen pregnancy prevention program of the Cortland County Health Department, the YWCA and the City Youth Bureau.


Cortland County Eighth Grade Survey Results:
January 1996, 1998, & 2000*
Percent Responding "Yes"
Question
Jan 1996
Jan 1998
Jan 2000
% Change from Jan '96 - Jan '00
Ever drink alcohol
72%
72%
58%
-19%
Ever gotten drunk
30
34
23
-23%
Ever used marijuana
28
31
26
-7%
Current boy/girl friend
33
35
29
-12%
Ever had consenting sex
25
18
11
-56%
N (range)
(244-247)
(210-231) **
(248-250)
*Comparable schools over the three surveys; N in parentheses.
** Ever used marijuana, N=210; other, 228 - 231

Actual Survey Questions

Have you ever had alcohol to drink (not counting a sip or taste for religious uses)? no/yes

Have you ever gotten drunk? no/yes

Have you ever used marijuana (pot, grass, hash, ect.)? no/yes

Do you currently have a boyfriend or girlfriend? no/yes

Have you ever had consenting sex with anyone (when you CHOOSE to have sex, not if anyone forced you to)? no/yes

  

 

Cortland Counts: An Assessment of Health and Well Being in Cortland County NY
July 2001 Executive Summary and Report of Findings

The Seven Valleys Health Coalition, Inc.
in cooperation with
Cortland County Health Department
Cortland Memorial Hospital
Community Outreach Partnership Center, COPC of SUNY Cortland
United Way for Cortland County, Inc.

These five organizations make up the Cortland Community Assessment Team (CAT)

Seven Valleys Health Coalition, Inc.
50 Clinton Avenue
Cortland, NY 13045
(607) 756-4198
jackie@sevenvalleyshealth.org