Feasibility, Acceptability, and Efficacy of the Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit

大麻意识和预防工具包的可行性、可接受性和有效性

• 批准号: 10448301
• 负责人: Bonnie L Halpern-Felsher
• 金额: $ 23.61万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-07-15 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10448301
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Cannabis, including smoked, blunts (cannabis rolled in a cigar leaf), edibles, and oils, is the most widely used drug among adolescents in the United States. With the passage of recreational and medical cannabis laws across the country, there is concern that adolescents will harbor misperceptions about the harms of cannabis, and that their acceptability and use of cannabis will further increase. Drug prevention programs have typically used schools as key venues for implementation, but often these programs are focused on fear tactics, use an “abstinence only” approach, and distribute curriculum materials in printed formats that need to be re-purchased when revised. To date, no comprehensive program focusing on prevention of all cannabis products has been developed, evaluated for efficacy, or widely disseminated throughout the U.S. To address this gap, we recently developed the Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit (CAPT), a free, online toolkit that consists of a curriculum, educational resources, and an external-resource directory to be used by educators, parents, juvenile justice workers, and healthcare providers to increase knowledge and awareness and reduce use among youth. The CAPT includes a five-session curriculum comprised of resources, activities, worksheets, PowerPoint presentations, games, and other tools aimed at changing adolescents’ attitudes towards and misperceptions about cannabis, increasing their resistance and coping skills, and decreasing intentions and actual use of all cannabis products. We have addressed 2 of the 6 stages needed to adequately develop, evaluate, and refine the CAPT, including conducting basic formative research to identify curriculum topics and develop the lessons (Stage 0); as well as developing, conducting preliminary evaluations, and refining the Curriculum (Stage I). Our next step is to conduct a study of the feasibility and acceptability of the of the Curriculum and conduct a pilot assessment of how and whether the Curriculum changes adolescents’ knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behavior (Stage II). In so doing, we have the following three aims: (1) Assess educators’ views of the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the CAPT Curriculum in their classrooms; (2) Assess middle school students’ acceptability and perceptions of the CAPT and its lessons; and (3) Investigate the extent to which the Curriculum changes middle school students’ knowledge of, attitudes towards, intentions to use and actual use of different forms of cannabis. We will employ a mixed-methods, school-based, randomized controlled intervention study, collecting data through quantitative surveys and focus groups and interviews conducted with students and educators. The proposed project is particularly timely given changing cannabis legislation in the US, and the continued misperceptions and use of cannabis among youth. Further, the findings will provide critical data to (1) revise and refine the CAPT Curriculum, and (2) apply for an R01 to conduct a formal evaluation of the efficacy of the Curriculum (Stages III-IV) and to further implement and disseminate the Curriculum (Stage V).

大麻，包括烟熏，钝（大麻在雪茄叶中滚动），食物和油是最广泛使用的 美国青少年中的药物。随着娱乐和医用大麻法的通过 在全国范围内，人们担心青少年会对大麻危害的误解， 他们的可接受性和使用大麻将进一步增加。药物预防计划通常已经 使用学校作为实施的关键场所，但通常这些计划专注于恐惧策略，使用 “仅节制”方法，并以需要重新购买的印刷格式分发课程材料 修改时。迄今为止，还没有针对所有大麻产品的全面计划 开发，评估效率或在美国各地广泛传播以解决这一差距，我们 最近开发了大麻意识和预防工具包（Capt），这是一个免费的在线工具包 教育工作者，父母， 少年司法工作者和医疗保健提供者，以提高知识和意识并减少使用 在青年中。上尉包括一门五项课程，包括资源，活动，工作表， PowerPoint演示，游戏和其他旨在改变青少年的工具 对大麻的误解，提高了他们的抵抗力和应对能力，并降低了意图和 实际使用所有大麻产品。我们已经解决了充分发展所需的6个阶段中的2个 评估和完善上尉，包括进行基本的形成性研究以识别课程主题和 开发课程（阶段0）；以及开发，进行初步评估并完善 课程（第一阶段）。我们的下一步是对of的可行性和可接受性进行研究 课程并对课程如何以及如何改变青少年的试点评估 知识，参与者，意图和行为（第二阶段）。这样做，我们有以下三个目标：（1） 评估教育者对实施上尉课程的可行性和可接受性的看法 教室； （2）评估中学生的可接受性和对上尉及其教训的看法；和 （3）研究课程改变中学生对态度的了解的程度 倾向于使用和实际使用不同形式的大麻。我们将采用混合方法， 基于学校的，随机对照干预研究，通过定量调查收集数据并重点 与学生和教育者进行的小组和访谈。拟议的项目特别及时 改变了美国的大麻立法，以及在青年中持续误解和使用大麻。 此外，调查结果将为（1）修改和完善上尉课程提供关键数据，（2）申请 R01对课程效率进行正式评估（III-IV阶段），并进一步实施 并传播课程（V级）。