Education about Alcohol by High School Athletic Coaches

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This study was an attempt to find out what high school athletic coaches tell their teams about the use of alcoholic beverages on the basis of a sample of 310 coaches in the public schools of California, 218 (70 percent) of whom returned, completed, a one-page questionnaire. Almost all coaches included total abstinence from alcohol as a training rule, and a clear majority would without any consideration drop a boy from the squad who was known to have broken this rule. Somewhat more than half of the coaches responded to the educational opportunity presented to them with comments which were judged excellent or acceptable. Slightly less than half responded either inappropriately, inaccurately, or falsely.

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