DE-USE SYSTEM: AN INTERVENTION PRODUCT FOR SCHOOLS

市场潜力存在低成本的调查和软件系统，以评估8 - 12年级学生的药物滥用。 许多学区定期对学生进行调查，以检查药物预防/教育计划的影响，并指导未来的计划。学校管理人员指出，这些调查存在的问题包括费用高、迟迟得不到结果以及难以理解和应用调查结果。 为了克服这些障碍，Creative Action，Inc.计划开发和销售药物教育/使用调查和评估系统R，其中包括调查表格、软件和供学校自行管理调查的技术手册。 在第二阶段研究中，将通过改进数据收集、分析和报告，进一步修订调查和软件。 此外，还将探索和开发包括嵌入答题卡的测试书在内的散装材料的制造。 将探索和开发制造能力，以创建一个工作原型，用于后续产品评估研究的扩展使用和评估。 最后，产品的功能，特点和好处将由全国代表性的学区样本进行评估。 研究将产生最符合消费者需求的最终产品设计，以及第三阶段商业化的制造规范和要求。建议的商业应用创意行动公司。进行了一项试点调查，发现30%的学校管理人员非常感兴趣，另有47%的人对具有DE-USE System R功能的产品感兴趣。 如果30%的学区、私立学校和天主教学校以500美元的价格购买这种产品，这将意味着大约230万美元的初始总收入。 调查材料、软件更新以及性行为和艾滋病毒风险等主题的额外模块也将是额外收入的来源。 这些收入来源将在第二阶段进一步探讨。

Market potential exists for a low-cost survey and software system to evaluate substance abuse among 8th-12th graders. Many school districts survey students periodically to examine impacts of drug prevention/education programs and to guide future programming. School administrators indicate problems with these surveys including high cost, long delay in obtaining results, and difficulty in understanding and applying findings. To overcome these barriers, Creative Action, Inc. plans to develop and market the Drug Education/Use Survey and Evaluation (DE-USE) System R, which includes survey forms, software and a technical manual for a school to self-administer a survey. In Phase II research, the survey and software will be further revised through improvements in data gathering, analyses, and reporting. Also, manufacturing bulk materials including test books with embedded answer sheets will be explored and developed. Manufacturing capabilities will be explored and developed to create a working prototype for extended use and assessment in subsequent product evaluation research. Finally, product functions, features and benefits will be evaluated by a nationally representative sample of school districts. Research will result in the final product design that most meets consumers needs and manufacturing specifications and requirement for Phase III commercialization. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION CREATIVE ACTION, INC. conducted a pilot survey and found 30 percent of school administrators were very interested and an additional 47 percent were interested in a product with the features proposed for the DE-USE System R. If 30 percent of school districts, private and Catholic schools were to purchase this product at 500.00 dollars this would represent an initial gross income of approximately 2.3 million dollars. Survey materials, software updates, and additional modules for subjects such as sexuality and HIV-risk would also be sources of additional revenue. These revenue sources will be further explored in Phase II.