Table 1.
Native Hawaiian Youth Drug Offers Survey: Item Refinement and Selection
| 1. | You are at your grandmother’s house for a family get-together, and your uncle pulls you aside and asks you, “You like smoke some weed?” |
| 2. | Your cousin is visiting your house, and asks you if you’d like to smoke some marijuana. After you refuse, he asks, “You sure? You no like?” |
| 3. | You have just exited the movie theatre with two of your cousins. It is late in the evening and most of the stores around the theatre have closed. One of your cousins asks you if you’d like to smoke some weed. |
| 4. | Your older brother enters your bedroom, closes the door, and asks if you’d like to smoke some weed. |
| 5. | You are at school, and some of your friends want to skip class so that they can smoke pakalolo. They ask you to join them. |
| 6. | You start dating someone who is in high school, and you find out he/she is using drugs. He/she wants you to try smoking pot with him/her. |
| 7. | You have a friend whose sister is dating a high school aged boy. He uses drugs, and then your friend’s sister starts using, too. You all go out together, and they offer you pakalolo. |
| 8. | There are two girls in your grade who are kind of tida and mean, and they use drugs. They try to encourage everyone to use. One day, they are in the bathroom making graffiti on the walls and smoking pakalolo. You walk in to use the bathroom, and they offer you some, but more like bully-tease you into trying. |
| 9. | On the nights that there is a full moon, lots of the older kids like to go out at night because they can kanikapila and smoke marijuana and drink beer outside. Your older cousin invites you to come along. |
| 10. | Your friends bring Bacardi to school and mix it with juice. They are drinking it on campus during recess. They offer you some. |
| 11. | One of your friends uses drugs, but you haven’t tried any yet. He/She tells you to try some weed, or you’re a “chicken.” |
| 12. | You are at home having dinner with your family. Your parents are drinking beer with dinner, and your mom offers you some. |
| 13. | You are at home with family members. Your uncle is there, and he smokes cigarettes. He offers you one, and wants you to smoke with him. |
| 14. | Your dad, uncles, papa, and dad’s friends are making pulehu in the yard, and you are with them. Your mom is inside the house. They are drinking a lot of beer, probably already drunk. Your dad offers you a beer. |
| 15. | On your school bus there are kids who bring beer to school in a soda can so it is not so obvious. They drink beer on the bus to and from school. One day, they ask you if you’d like to hang out with them. |
| 16. | During morning recess at school, you and your friends are hanging out behind the band building. Your friends are drinking alcohol and they offer you some. You say, “No thanks.” One of your friends says, “Oh come on, have some.” |
| 17. | You go to a community dance for kids. Some people are hanging out in the parking area drinking and using drugs. Your friend says to you, “Let’s see what’s going on in the parking lot.” |
| 18. | You are at a park with a bunch of kids who are smoking cigarettes. They are passing the cigarette pack around, and it gets passed to you. |
| 19. | You are at a family party where the adults have coolers full of beer. They are getting drunk, so you and your cousins can take a beer without the adults noticing. One of you cousins says to you, “Let’s grab one.” |
| 20. | You go down to the beach where you see some of your friends, who happen to be smoking pakalolo. They notice you, and motion at you to join them. |
| 21. | During summer break, your friends invite you to go to the park with them. After a while, you end up going to someone’s house, where your friends ask you if you want to smoke weed with them. |
| 22. | One of your classmates always hangs around with this group of older kids and they smoke weed every day. One day, your classmate asks you if you’d like to eat lunch with them. |
| 23. | Your friends are drinking beer, but you don’t want to, so you say you need to go home. They tease you by saying, “Oh you’re scared.” You are afraid they might spread rumors or gossip about you at school. |
| 24. | Your friend’s parents are away, so your friend has a party in the house. Some kids at the party brought “hards”, and are pouring shots for everyone. They pass one to you. |
| 25. | Your best friend offers you marijuana. You don’t know what might happen to your friendship if you said “no”. |
| 26. | You are with a girl/boy you like and some other friends. They are all hiding in the bushes smoking weed. They ask you if you want to try some. After you say no, they say, “Just try this once, it’s cool.” |
| 27. | Your friends are playing a card game where they have to take a shot of hard liquor if they lose. They ask you if you want to play. |
| 28. | You and your teammates are at a state tournament. There are teams from all over the state, both boys and girls. Some of the older kids you met had snuck weed and “hards” in with them. Your teammate wants to go drink with this group of kids, and asks you to come with him/her. |
| 29. | You see some of your friends at the fair, so you go cruise with them for the night. Your friend has weed with her and wants to smoke. She offers you some. |
| 30. | You are staying at your cousin’s house for the weekend. He’s a little bit older than you (in high school). He asks you if you’d like to sneak out of the house to go meet up with friends at the park to smoke weed. |
| 31. | Your cousin is upset because she just broke up with her boyfriend and she wants to get drunk. So, she asks you to go to a party where kids are drinking and smoking pot. |
| 32. | Your friend brought alcohol to school, and put it in a Gatorade bottle. The security found out, and called your friend to the office. Your friend doesn’t want to get busted, so he/she asks you to hold it for them while they go to the principal’s office. |
| 33. | Your cousin brings marijuana to school and asks you if you’d like to go to the bathroom to roll some joints. |
| 34. | Your cousin who is in high school smokes cigarettes. He tells you, “Smoking makes you look cool,” and then offers you one. |
| 35. | There is a building on campus where kids go behind to smoke and drink. The school security doesn’t go back there, so you know can go there and not get caught. One of your cousins invites you to go there with him after school. |
| 36. | You’re at the fair with someone you just started dating. He/She pulls out some weed and asks you if you’d like to smoke some. |
| 37. | You’re at the mall with someone you just started dating. He/She pulls out a pipe, and asks if you’d like to smoke some “ice.” |
| 38. | You’re at the Boys and Girls Club after school. Someone that you know as a drug user is there, and appears to be “high.” He/She asks you if you’d like to go behind the building with him. |
| 39. | You’re walking around town late in the evening with your older cousin and his friends. They’re all drinking, and notice that you haven’t had any alcohol. One of them asks you if you’d like a beer. |
| 40. | You’re playing basketball with your older cousin and his friends at a nearby school. After you’re done with the game, he pulls out some cigarettes and asks you if you’d like one. |
| 41. | You’re hanging out with your best friend at recess. He pulls out a pack of cigarettes and asks you if you’d like one. |
| 42. | You’re in the parking lot at the mall. Your brother pulls out a pipe and asks you if you’d like to smoke some ice with him. |
| 43. | You’re playing cards with your father. He’s drinking a beer, and asks you if you’d like a sip. |
| 44. | You’re camping with your ‘ohana, and your father and uncles are drinking beer by the fire. Your father turns to your uncle and, gesturing to you, says “Go ahead and give him one.” |
| 45. | A big, bulky boy in school is known to be the leader of a group of “tough kids,” who fight and do drugs. He approaches you one day at recess and asks you if you’d like to hang out with his group. |
| 46. | You’ve just started at a new school, and don’t know very many kids. A group of older boys in school that is known to use drugs and alcohol approach you at recess and ask you if you’d like to hang out with them. |
| 47. | You’re at the park with your older cousin. He takes out a pipe full of ice and says, “Try this.” |
| 48. | You’re helping your uncle with chores on his ranch. He turns to you, takes out a pipe, and offers you some “ice”. |
| 49. | You’re at the beach with your friend and his ‘ohana. Your friend’s uncle is drunk and offers you and your friend some beer. |
| 50. | You’re at a party with your ‘ohana, and one of your older cousins offers you to take a sip of beer. You tell him you gotta go, but he keeps following you and asking you to drink some. |
| 51. | You walk past a group of students smoking cigarettes outside of the school campus before school. They say, “You like smoke?” |
| 52. | Your older brother recently entered high school, and started hanging out with a group of kids that smoke weed. He comes home from school one day and asks you if you’d like to try some. |
| 53. | A group of high school boys are hanging out in the school parking lot after school, smoking weed. As you walk by them on the way to the bus, one of them says to you, “Hey, come over here.” |
| 54. | You’re at the community recreational center after school. While in the locker room, your best friend takes out some marijuana form his pocket and says “want some?” |
| 55. | You’re at a New Year’s Eve Party with your ‘ohana, and your auntie’s boyfriend offers you some of his beer. |
| 56. | You’re at the mall with your friend, and you run into your friend’s older sister and her friends. She is smoking a cigarette and trying to act cool. She asks you if you’d like one. |
| 57. | You’re hanging out at the beach with your ‘ohana and one of your aunties asks you if you’d like some marijuana. |
| 58. | You’re at your uncle’s house helping with chores. He pulls you aside to help him with something and then asks you if you’d like some beer. |
| 59. | Your ‘ohana is at your house for a Superbowl party. All of the adults are drinking alcohol, and, in front of everyone your father asks you, “Oh, you like drink some?” |
| 60. | Your older cousin is walking with you to the mall. He takes out some marijuana and says “Don’t tell my parents. You like some?” |
| 61. | You pass by some classmates before school who are standing in front of the cafeteria. One of them pulls out a container and says, “You like some weed?” |
| 62. | You’re walking to class with a friend. He tells you that he has weed in his pocket and asks if you’d like some. |