LaunchPad: Supporting Healthy Decisions and Preventing Drug Use After High School
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age15-21
SponsorPrevention Strategies, LLC
About this trial
LaunchPad is an online substance use prevention program for high school seniors. The program is designed to help seniors develop skills and make informed decisions as they transition from high school to young adulthood.
The purpose of this clinical trial is to learn whether individual LaunchPad lessons improve the specific attitudes, intentions, and skills they are designed to address. For example, researchers will examine whether the stress management lesson increases students' intentions to use healthy ways of managing stress.
The main question this study aims to answer is: Does each individual LaunchPad lesson improve the specific outcomes it was designed to address?
Researchers will compare students who receive a particular lesson with students who do not receive that lesson to determine whether the lesson changes the intended outcome.
Participants will:
* Complete a brief baseline survey * Complete two introductory online lessons * Complete one or more randomly assigned LaunchPad lessons * Complete a brief follow-up survey
All surveys and lessons will be completed online.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Public or private school in the U.S. enrolling 12th grade students
Agree to (1) provide us contact information for students and parents (or to send study information to students and parents themselves), (2) identify a school contact person (typically a school counselor) who will work with us to carry out the study (recruitment, pretest survey, intervention deployment, posttest survey), and (3) either provide school time to complete the intervention or integrate the intervention into a class (e.g., as an out-of-class assignment)
Enrolled as a 12th grade student at one of the participating schools
Have not completed a previous version of the intervention before
Disqualifiers
None
Trial design
Design model
Factorial
Treatments tested in this trial
Introduction
BehavioralDiscusses choices and challenges students face as they transition out of high school to promote participant buy-in. Explains the consequences of SU, focusing on how these consequences can interfere with their life plans.
Norms re: Protective Behavior Strategies (PBS)
BehavioralProvides messages from young adults that reveal positive attitudes (i.e., high injunctive norms) about using protective strategies to limit exposure to risky situations and behaviors. Messages will also emphasize low approval toward negative consequences of SU to motivate the need for PBS use.
Life Skills
BehavioralTeaches social and decision-making skills such as SU refusal skills and strategies for coping with stress and anxiety.
Norms re: Bystander Intervention Strategies
BehavioralProvides normative feedback about intervening on behalf of peers and teaches strategies to intervene on behalf of peers.
Making Friends
BehavioralTeaches strategies to make friends without SU.
Norms about Substance Use
BehavioralCorrects misperceptions about prevalence of SU among young adults and young adults' approval of SU.
Treatment groups
5,000 Participants
are divided into 16 treatment groups16
Treatment groupsSee each treatment group below.
Group A: Introduction + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group B: Introduction + Norms re: Protective Behavior Strategies (PBS)Experimental treatment 2 interventions
Group C: Introduction + Life SkillsExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group D: Introduction + Life Skills + Norms re: PBS + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group E: Introduction + Making FriendsExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group F: Introduction + Making Friends + Norms re: PBS + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group G: Introduction + Making Friends + Life Skills + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group H: Introduction + Making Friends + Life Skills + Norms re: Protective Behavior StrategiesExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group I: Introduction + Norms about Substance UseExperimental treatment 2 interventions
Group J: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Norms re: PBS + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group K: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Life Skills + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group L: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Life Skills + Norms re: Protective Behavior StrategiesExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group M: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Making Friends + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group N: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Making Friends + Norms re: PBSExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group O: Introduction + Norms about Substance Use + Making Friends + Life SkillsExperimental treatment 4 interventions
Group P: Intro + Norms re SU + Making Friends + Life Skills + Norms re PBS + Norms re: Bystander InterventionExperimental treatment 6 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Substance Use Injunctive Norms
To capture students' perceived approval of substance use among their peers, they will indicate how much typical same-sex college students and typical same-sex young adults not in college approve of: Drinking daily; Having 4-5 drinks nearly every day; Having 5 or more drinks once or twice each weekend; Trying marijuana once or twice; Using marijuana occasionally; Using marijuana regularly; Smoking one or packs of cigarettes a day; Using e-cigarettes/vaping. Response options will be 1=strongly disapprove to 7=strongly approve. Responses will be averaged across reference groups but each substance will be analyzed separately.
Time frame
This measure will be completed at the pretest and immediate posttest2
Substance Use Descriptive Norms
To capture students' perceived frequency of substance use among their peers, students will indicate what percentage of typical same-sex college students and typical same sex young adults not in college have done the following in the past 30 days: Drank alcohol, been drunk, used marijuana, smoked cigarettes, used e-cigarettes / vaped. Students will also indicate what percentage of each group they think have had 5 or more drinks in the past 2 weeks. The questions will allow open ended responses ranging from 0-100. Responses will be averaged across reference groups but each substance will be analyzed separately.
Time frame
This measure will be completed at the pretest and immediate posttest.3
Social self-efficacy
Students will report how confident they are that they could do things to meet new people in real situations. For example ("Start a conversation with someone you don't know or just met"; "Get to know new people without using alcohol or other drugs"). Response options will be 1 = Not at all confident to 4 = Completely confident. Responses will be averaged across items.
Time frame
This measure will be completed at the pretest and immediate posttest.4
Beliefs about social belonging without substance use
Students will indicate how much they agree with statements about the importance of substance use for young adults to make friends. Response options will range from 1 = strongly disagree to 6 = strongly agree. Responses will be averaged across items.
Time frame
This measure will be completed at the pretest and immediate posttest.Locations
Sponsors and contacts
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Prevention Strategies, LLC
Lead sponsor
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Collaborator
NORC at the University of Chicago
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov
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