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
Qualifiers
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
Treatments tested in this trial
- Introduction
- Norms re: Protective Behavior Strategies (PBS)
- Life Skills
- Norms re: Bystander Intervention Strategies
- Making Friends
- Norms about Substance Use
Treatment groups
5,000 Participants
are divided into 16 treatment groups16
Treatment groupsSee each treatment group below.
Locations
Sponsors and collaborators
Prevention Strategies, LLC
Lead sponsor
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Collaborator
NORC at the University of Chicago
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov