Smart Talk: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Curriculum Evaluation

ConditionCannabis Use
Trial statusNot yet recruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age10-20
SponsorStanford University

About this trial

The Stanford REACH Lab's SMART TALK: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit is a free, online educational resource to be used by educators to increase knowledge and awareness of cannabis and reduce use among youth. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which the curriculum changes middle and high school students' intentions to use and actual use of cannabis.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Middle school and high school students receiving health education at schools participating in the study

Disqualifiers

None

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Behavioral: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention

    Behavioral

    Behavioral:Smart Talk includes 5 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth cannabis use, including changing adolescents' attitudes towards and misperceptions about cannabis; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of marketing and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to cannabis initiation and use; improving coping skills; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all cannabis products.

Treatment groups

10,800 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groups
Group A: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and PreventionExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Group B: Delay in Treatment GroupExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

1

Change in cannabis use

Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) assess ever cannabis use \& past 30-day cannabis use. This outcome measure assesses cannabis use.

Time frame
Baseline to follow-up at approximately 182 weeks

Secondary outcomes

1

Change in intention to use cannabis in the future

Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) assessing change in participant intention to use cannabis in the future

Time frame
Baseline to follow-up at approximately 182 weeks

Other outcomes

Sponsors and contacts

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Stanford University

Lead sponsor

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Collaborator

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