Testing ALERT With GTO in Middle Schools
ConditionSubstance Abuse
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age11-70
SponsorRAND
About this trial
To test the efficacy of Project ALERT with the support enhancement tool, Getting To Outcomes.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Eligibility for student participants: all students in 7th grade, primarily aged 12-14, attending school at one of the enrolled schools in the study.
Eligibility for school staff participants: all educators interested in enrolling in the study at each of the enrolled schools.
Disqualifiers
Not meeting eligibility criteria
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Project ALERT
Behavioral14 session drug prevention program for 7th and 8th grade youth.
Getting to Outcomes
BehavioralThe Getting To Outcomes (GTO) implementation support intervention provides technical assistance, training, guides, and tools to improve community-based practitioners capacity to complete tasks associated with implementing an EBP, which in turn leads to improved implementation fidelity.
Treatment groups
42 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groupsGroup A: Project ALERT onlyActive comparator 1 intervention
Group B: Project ALERT plus GTOActive comparator 2 interventions
Group C: Status quoNo intervention 0 interventions
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Student alcohol and drug behavior
Alcohol and drug use will be assessed for alcohol, cigarettes, marijuana, e-cigarettes, prescription opioids, and heroin (lifetime, past month, past year use), allowing us to evaluate program effects on ever, past month, and weekly use. We will assess marijuana and nicotine using items to capture nuanced products (e.g., JUUL/vape pens) and include combinations of marijuana/nicotine products to assess co-use, such as using a vaporizer to vape both nicotine e-liquid and cannabis oil. For alcohol, we will ask questions that allow us to construct 3 alcohol misuse scales: (1) alcohol-related consequences (sum of 5 dichotomous questions on: getting sick, getting in a physical fight, getting in trouble at school, getting in trouble at home, doing something he/she later regretted); (2) high-risk drinking (sum of 3 dichotomous variables: binge drinking in the past month, polydrug use of alcohol and marijuana in the past year, weekly drinking); and (3) overall misuse (sum of above 8 variables).
Time frame
Changes assessed for past year use at each follow-up point from baseline2
Student pro-substance use risk factors on consequences
Beliefs about the short- and long-term consequences (positive and negative). Measures come from the Project ALERT survey posted on the Project ALERT website and utilized in the 4 prior RCTs of Project ALERT.
Time frame
Changes assessed for past year consequences of use at each follow-up point from baseline3
Student resistance self-efficacy
Resistance self-efficacy from the Project ALERT survey measures avoiding use of all 6 drugs in risky situations. Measure is posted on the Project ALERT website and utilized in the 4 prior RCTs of Project ALERT.
Time frame
Changes assessed for past year self-efficacy use at each follow-up point from baseline4
Student pro-substance use risk factors on perceived norms
Normative beliefs about the prevalence of use and its acceptability to others, including peers and parents. Measures come from the Project ALERT survey posted on the Project ALERT website and utilized in the 4 prior RCTs of Project ALERT.
Time frame
Changes assessed for past year perceived peer use at each follow-up point from baselineSponsors and contacts
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RAND
Lead sponsor
University of Southern California
Collaborator
Source ClinicalTrials.gov