Information for pupils - control schools
What is KAT?
Your school is one of four schools chosen to test the KAT programme. KAT tries to get parents and children to think more about the way people talk about alcohol and when people might want to drink alcoholic drinks. This might help young people to be more sensible about drinking alcohol when they are growing up.
What is the research about?
The evaluation will help us to find out what happens in schools as part of the KAT programme; and what people think of it. Some schools will take part in the KAT programme. Some schools will not receive the KAT programme and will just carry on as normal; these are known as control schools. Your school has been chosen to be a control school and so will not receive the KAT programme. Control schools are a really important part of the study as they allow us to compare changes in their pupils with that of pupils who have been involved in the KAT programme. Your school has posted a letter to your parents to tell them what the evaluation is about. We are researchers based at Cardiff University.
What do I have to do?
As part of this research we would like to ask you to answer two questionnaires for us. The questionnaires have questions about what things are like in your family, and also some questions about alcohol. You can decide if you want to take part or not.
What will you do with the information you collect?
We will come back to your school to tell you what we found (if your Head teacher gives permission). We will also make presentations to everyone else who takes part, to international conferences and to other groups of people who are interested. We will also write papers for academic journals.
We will not use the names of individual pupils or schools so no-one who hears about the evaluation will know who has taken part. Written notes and voice recordings will be locked up in offices at Cardiff University. We won’t tell your parents, teachers and friends about anything we hear you say or see you do. However we would have to tell someone else if we found out about something that might put someone in danger
What if I’ve got some questions?
If you see us at your school, please come and talk to us.
Jeremy Segrott Anna Flicker
Or you can contact Jeremy Segrott at Cardiff University (email: SegrottJ@cardiff.ac.uk, telephone: 029 20875360).
Your school is one of four schools chosen to test the KAT programme. KAT tries to get parents and children to think more about the way people talk about alcohol and when people might want to drink alcoholic drinks. This might help young people to be more sensible about drinking alcohol when they are growing up.
What is the research about?
The evaluation will help us to find out what happens in schools as part of the KAT programme; and what people think of it. Some schools will take part in the KAT programme. Some schools will not receive the KAT programme and will just carry on as normal; these are known as control schools. Your school has been chosen to be a control school and so will not receive the KAT programme. Control schools are a really important part of the study as they allow us to compare changes in their pupils with that of pupils who have been involved in the KAT programme. Your school has posted a letter to your parents to tell them what the evaluation is about. We are researchers based at Cardiff University.
What do I have to do?
As part of this research we would like to ask you to answer two questionnaires for us. The questionnaires have questions about what things are like in your family, and also some questions about alcohol. You can decide if you want to take part or not.
What will you do with the information you collect?
We will come back to your school to tell you what we found (if your Head teacher gives permission). We will also make presentations to everyone else who takes part, to international conferences and to other groups of people who are interested. We will also write papers for academic journals.
We will not use the names of individual pupils or schools so no-one who hears about the evaluation will know who has taken part. Written notes and voice recordings will be locked up in offices at Cardiff University. We won’t tell your parents, teachers and friends about anything we hear you say or see you do. However we would have to tell someone else if we found out about something that might put someone in danger
What if I’ve got some questions?
If you see us at your school, please come and talk to us.
Jeremy Segrott Anna Flicker
Or you can contact Jeremy Segrott at Cardiff University (email: SegrottJ@cardiff.ac.uk, telephone: 029 20875360).
