TESTING SUSTAINING SOCIAL INFLUENCE MODEL RURAL SCHOOL

测试维持社会影响力示范乡村学校

• 批准号: 2898170
• 负责人: Douglas Y. Longshore
• 金额: $ 72.08万
• 依托单位: RAND CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-30 至 2002-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/2898170
• 关键词: alcoholism /alcohol abuse education; alcoholism /alcohol abuse prevention; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; cognition; curriculum; drug abuse education; drug abuse prevention; health economics; human subject; human therapy evaluation; longitudinal human study; outcomes research; rural area; secondary schools; social psychology; substance abuse related disorder; tobacco abuse education; tobacco abuse prevention

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) Project ALERT is a school-based curriculum (eleven lessons in the 7th grade and a three-lesson booster in the 8th) to prevent/delay the use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs (ATOD) among young people by raising resistance self efficacy; modifying beliefs regarding ATOD norms; changing expectancies and intentions regarding ATOD use; and helping students identify and resist pro-drug pressures. An earlier evaluation of ALERT documented favorable effects on these cognitive factors and ATOD use among middle-school students. In this study we will create developmentally appropriate booster lessons extending the ALERT curriculum into the 9th, 10th, and 11th grades. Multi year outcomes will be compared across three conditions: a control (no ALERT) condition; the existing ALERT curriculum (7th and 8th grades); and the extended curriculum (7th thru 11th grades), called ALERT PLUS. Clusters of 48 high schools and their middle-school feeders will be randomly assigned to these conditions. Clusters will include public and Catholic schools in communities of varying size in the largely rural state of South Dakota. The study design will enable us to address current issues in generalizability (are social influence programs effective for young people of varying background characteristics and in varying school contexts), sustain ability (what can be done to prolong the favorable effects of middle-school prevention programs as teens move through their high-school years) and implementation (what school characteristics facilitate or undermine successful implementation of ATOD prevention curricula). Specific aims of the study are as follows. (1) Estimate the effects of the 7th and 8th grade curriculum on cognitive factors and ATOD use among a cohort of middle-school students in a rural state. (2) Estimate the effects of 9th to 11th grade booster lessons on cognitive factors and ATOD use as the middle-school cohort matures. (3) Explicate effects of ALERT and ALERT PLUS in analyses of rural/urban school context, mediating and moderating background factors, dose-response, and longitudinal transitions on ATOD use. (4) Describe program implementation and incorporate fidelity of implementation into outcome analyses. (5) Estimate the cost-effectiveness of Project ALERT and Project ALERT PLUS.

描述：（申请人摘要） 项目ALERT是一个以学校为基础的课程（七年级11节课 第八节是三节课的助推器），以防止/延迟饮酒， 烟草和其他药物（ATOD）在年轻人中通过提高耐药性 自我效能;修正关于ATOD规范的信念;改变期望 和意图有关ATOD使用;并帮助学生识别和抵制 毒品压力ALERT的早期评价记录为有利 对这些认知因素和ATOD使用的影响 学生在这项研究中，我们将创造发展适当的助推器， 将ALERT课程扩展到9年级、10年级和11年级。 将在三种条件下比较多年结局：对照组（无 警报）条件;现有警报课程（7年级和8年级）;以及 扩展课程（7至11年级），称为ALERT PLUS。集群 48所高中和他们的中学供应商将被随机分配 这些条件。集群将包括公立和天主教学校， 在以农村为主的南达科他州，的 研究设计将使我们能够普遍地解决当前的问题 (are对不同年龄段的年轻人有效的社会影响方案 背景特点和不同的学校环境），持续能力 (what可以延长中学教育的有利影响， 预防计划，因为青少年通过他们的高中时代移动）， 实施情况（学校的哪些特点有利于或不利于 成功地实施了预防恐怖主义、毒品和犯罪的课程）。具体目标 研究内容如下。(1)估计7年级和8年级的影响 认知因素与ATOD使用的关系 学生在农村。(2)估计9至11年级的影响 关于认知因素和ATOD作为中学使用的助推器课程 cohort成熟(3)在分析中阐明ALERT和ALERT PLUS的影响 农村/城市学校背景、中介和调节背景因素、 剂量反应和ATOD使用的纵向转换。(4)描述 程序实现，并将实现的保真度纳入 结果分析。(5)评估ALERT项目的成本效益， 项目ALERT PLUS。