Crossroads: Cooperative High School Drug Prevention

十字路口：合作高中毒品预防

• 批准号: 7111796
• 负责人: MELODIE D FEARNOW-KENNEY
• 金额: $ 43.94万
• 依托单位: TANGLEWOOD RESEARCH, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2007-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7111796
• 关键词: Internet; adolescence (12-20); alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; clinical research; clinical trials; drug abuse education; drug abuse prevention; education evaluation /planning; focus groups; human subject; interview; mentoring /mentor; patient oriented research; secondary schools; tobacco abuse prevention

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescent drug use continues to be a major public health problem. The need for late onset drug prevention and early cessation in high schools is great, yet few universal programs exist that target alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among high school students. Crossroads is a universal drug prevention program based on a cooperative relationship between high school peer educators, high school health teachers, and college mentors at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. This is a multifaceted program that includes peer-led classroom sessions, school-wide social norms campaigns, school-wide drug information booths, and mentoring provided by college students at the Crossroads Prevention Center at UNC Wilmington. The infrastructure needed to organize all of these components and facilitate communication between all participants is provided by the Crossroads Web Site. This Phase II STTR has two objectives: 1) to refine all program materials and the web site based on lessons learned during Phase I and 2) conduct an independently evaluated randomized field trial to assess the effectiveness of the program. Crossroads will contribute to the shared mission of Tanglewood Research and the SBIR/STTR program to develop, test, and disseminate highly effective educational materials for preventing drug use among teens. This research project has the potential to improve the health and well being of high school students. In addition, it can inform the field of prevention regarding effective strategies for reducing drug use onset and encouraging early cessation among this under served group of young people.

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年吸毒仍然是一个主要的公共卫生问题。高中时需要预防迟发药物和早期停止药物的需求，但很少有针对酒精，烟草和其他药物使用的普遍计划。 Crossroads是一项普遍的预防药物计划，基于高中同学教育者，高中卫生教师和北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿大学的大学导师之间的合作关系。这是一项多方面的计划，包括由同伴领导的课堂会议，范围内的社会规范运动，范围内的毒品信息摊位以及由UNC Wilmington的Crossroads预防中心提供的大学生提供的指导。十字路口网站提供了组织所有这些组件并促进所有参与者之间沟通所需的基础架构。该II阶段STTR具有两个目标：1）根据第I期和2）进行独立评估的随机现场试验以评估程序的有效性的独立评估的随机现场试验，以完善所有程序材料和网站。十字路口将有助于Tanglewood Research和SBIR/STTR计划的共同使命，以开发，测试和传播高效的高效教育材料，以防止青少年使用吸毒。该研究项目有可能改善高中生的健康和健康。此外，它还可以为预防领域提供有关减少药物使用的有效策略的信息，并鼓励在这一群年轻人群体中提早停止。