ABSTRACT
This chapter tests if differences in the privacy of an interview – some of which are directly related to community-based participatory research practices – are associated with several key outcomes of an ongoing family-based and culturally adapted evidence-based substance use prevention program for American Indian pre-adolescents aged 8–10. A major concern for researchers who hire local interviewers is social desirability effects. Error from social desirability occurs when a participant alters their true response in order to present a more desirable view of themselves to those collecting data. Data are from the baseline interview of the multi-site randomized control trial BZDDD program. The BZDDD program focuses on substance use, mental health, and cultural/traditional engagement. The majority of the tested associations between privacy concerns and the core BZDDD outcomes among youth are not significant. These outcomes indicate that social desirability effects due to these three privacy concerns are largely non-existent among youth during the baseline period of this study.
