Additional validation procedures can include qualitative interviews with high-risk youth identified using the SURPS, such as described by Barrett et al. [70], and procedures that include even more community engagement, such as described by Mushquash et al. [71, 72]. In both adaptations, a mixed-method approach was used in which quantitative surveys such as the Drinking Motives Questionnaire are used to confirm different motivational profiles in high-risk youth and qualitative surveys and interviews with high-risk youth are used to collect detailed information on where drinking and drug use situations occur in young people’s lives and other local interests and pastime activities for youth. Conducting structured qualitative interviews with youth who reported substance use and elevated personality risk is also recommended to help identify local terms used to describe substance-related activities and the physical and emotional states relevant to each personality dimension. For example, when adapting the Preventure Programme to French Canadian youth, it became evident that the term ‘Drinking to get high’ did not have a direct translation in French but rather translated to a more ambiguous term, “Pour le ‘Feeling”’.
