Utah Prevention Needs Assessment (PNA) Configuration Selection

30 day drinking (question wording)

On how many occasions (if any) have you: had beer, wine or hard liquor to drink in the past 30 days?

Binge Drinking (question wording)

Think back over the last two weeks, if any, how many times have you had five or more alcoholic drinks in a row?

30-day Marijuana Use (question wording)

On how many occasions (if any) have you: used marijuana (grass, pot cannabis, weed) or hashish (hash, hash oil) during the past 30 days?

Prescription Drugs (question wording)

On how many occasions (if any) have you (1) used prescription stimulants or amphetamines (susch as Adderall, Ritalin, or Dexedrine) without a doctor telling you to take them, during the past 30 days?; (2) used prescription sedatives including barbiturates or sleeping pills (such as phenobarbital, Tunial, Seconal, Ambien, Lunesta, or Sonata) without a doctor telling you to take them, during the past 30 days?; (3) used prescription tranzuilizers (such as Librium, Valium, Xanax, Ativan, Soma or Klonopin) without a doctor telling you to take them, during the past 30 days?; (4) used narcotic prescription drugs (such as OxyContin, methadone, morphine, codeine, Demerol, Vicodin, Percocet) without a doctor telling you to take them, during the past 30 days?

Asthma Attack (question wording)

During the past 12 months, did you have an episode of asthma or an asthma attack?

Asthma Management Plan (question wording)

Has a doctor or other health professional EVER given you a written asthma action plan?

Asthma Missed School (question wording)

During the past 12 months, about how many days of school have you missed because of your asthma?

Current Asthma (question wording)

Has a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have asthma? Do you still have asthma?

Lifetime Asthma (question wording)

Has a doctor or nurse ever told you that you have asthma?

Diabetes (question wording)

Do you have diabetes?

Bullied at School (question wording)

During the past 12 months, how often (if at all) have you been picked on or bullied by a student ON SCHOOL PROPERTY?

Dating Violence (question wording)

During the past 12 months, how many times (if any) did someone you were dating or going out with physically hurt you on purpose? (Count such things as being hit, slammed into something, or injured with an object or weapon.)

Electronic Bullying (question wording)

During the past 12 months, how often (if at all) have you been threatened or harassed over the internet, by email, or by someone using a cell phone?

Talking on Cell Phone while Driving (question wording)

During the past 30 days, did you drive a car or other vehicle when you were talking on a cell phone? If so, on how many days?

Texting on Cell Phone while Driving (question wording)

During the past 30 days, did you text or email while driving a car or other vehicle? If so, on how many days?

Seatbelt Always (question wording)

Seatbelt always

Seatbelt Sometimes (question wording)

How often do you wear a seat belt when riding in a car driven by someone else?

Unsafe at School (question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days (if any) did you not go to school because you felt you would be unsafe at school or on your way to or from school?

Felt Sad or Hopeless (question wording)

During the past 12 months, did you ever feel so sad or hopeless almost every day for two weeks or more in a row that you stopped doing some usual activities?

Serious Mental Illness (question wording)

Serious mental illness based on the Kessler psychological distress scale

Suicide Attempt (question wording)

During the past 12 months, how many times (if any) did you actually attempt suicide?

Suicide Ideation (question wording)

During the past 12 months, did you ever seriously consider attempting suicide?

Suicide Plan (question wording)

During the past 12 months, did you make a plan about how you would attempt suicide?

Self Harm (question wording)

In the past 12 months, have you ever done something to purposefully hurt yourself without wanting to die, such as cutting or burning yourself on purpose? If so, how many times did you do so?

Social Isolation (question wording)

Score based on total score from q74 1= 4-13, 2= 14-16, 3= 17 or greater

Family Meal (question wording)

During a typical week, how many times do all or most of your family eat at least one meal together?

Obesity (question wording)

Height in feet and inches; weight in pounds

Physical Activity: During the Past 7 Days (question wording)

During the past 7 days, on how many days were you physically active for a total of at least 60 minutes per day? (Add up all the time you spent in any kind of physical activity that increased your heart rate and made you breathe hard some of the time.)

Close to Dad (question wording)

Do you feel very close to your father?

Close to Mom (question wording)

Do you feel very close to your mother?

Like School (question wording)

How often in the past year did you enjoy being in school?

Like Neighborhood (question wording)

I like my neighborhood

Neighbors Notice (question wording)

My neighbors notice when I am doing a good job and let me know about it.

Neighbors Proud (question wording)

There are people in my neighborhood who are proud of me when I do something well.

Parent Help (question wording)

If I had a personal problem, I could ask my mom or dad for help.

Share With Dad (question wording)

Do you share your thoughts and feelings with your father?

Share With Mom (question wording)

Do you share your thoughts and feelings with your mother?

Teachers Notice (question wording)

My teachers notice when I am doing a good job and let me know about it.

30-day E-cigarette Use(question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you: use vape products such as e-cigarettes, vape pens, mods, or pod vapes like JUUL or Puff Bars? NOTE: In 2015-2021, lifetime and 30-day vaping use questions were about general vape device use. In 2023, the survey was revised to ask about vaping nicotine and vaping marijuana separately. The 2023 vaping data presented here are for students who responded that they vaped either nicotine OR marijuana, or both substances.

30-day Smoking(question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you smoke cigarettes?

30-day Smokeless Tobacco (question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you: use chewing tobacco, snuff, dip, or snus (moist smokeless tobacco usually sold in small pouches)?

Anti-Tobacco Ad Recall (question wording)

In the past 30 days, how often have you seen or heard any advertising or campaigns against smoking?

Anti-tobacco lesson (question wording)

During this school year, were you taught in any of your classes about the dangers of tobacco use?

Live with Someone Who Smokes (question wording)

Does anyone who lives with you now smoke cigarettes

Same Room with Someone Who Smokes (question wording)

During the past 7 days, on how many days were you in the same room with someone who was smoking cigarettes?

Use Vape Products Containing Marijuana (question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you: use vape products containing marijuana?

Use Vape Products Containing Nicotine (question wording)

During the past 30 days, on how many days did you: use vape products containing nicotine such as e-cigarettes, vape pens, mods, or pod vapes like JUUL or Puff Bars?