A roadmap to a toolkit: exploring intervention opportunities for tobacco and cannabis co-use in the Further Education sector

工具包路线图：探索继续教育部门烟草和大麻共同使用的干预机会

• 批准号: ES/Y008227/1
• 负责人: Hannah Walsh
• 金额: $ 15.34万
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Fellowship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FY008227%2F1
• 关键词: roadmap; toolkit; exploring; intervention; opportunities

This fellowship aims to build a roadmap to a co-use toolkit - what does this mean? My PhD used a variety of research methods (systematic review, survey and individual interviews) to understand how young adults who use tobacco and cannabis understood their experiences of each, and how they made choices about reducing or stopping them. I learned that few used any support. In this fellowship, I will take these findings back to the young adults directly and to other researchers, to start a conversation about what the next steps should be; using co-production methods. By the end of the fellowship, I will produce a 'roadmap', showing the steps required to get from A to B, that is; from my ideas based on my PhD findings to a fully developed set of evidence based, co-produced resources: a 'tobacco and cannabis co-use toolkit'. This toolkit could be accessed by young adults, and people who work with young adults, to help make safer choices about substance use, and to reduce the harms they might experience. I already have some ideas about what might be in this toolkit based on the findings of the studies in my thesis, but my ideas alone aren't enough, I need to share them to make sure I'm taking the right approach. What am I proposing? In my PhD research, I asked a lot of questions of young adults, using a survey and interviews. However, I didn't get the chance to go back to those who were involved, nor to the colleges where they studied, to say 'thank you - this is what I learned from you all'. But I don't want to just get people to listen to me - I want to hear what they think about what I've found out, what surprises them or doesn't make sense, and what they have already tried to help them reduce their substance use, and what they did or didn't like. I will deliver two 'knowledge exchange' workshops to staff and students- a first with initial ideas, the second after I've gathered information and resources, which will help me to plan the next steps. I also want to write up my results for other researchers, and present my findings at conferences, to hear what other researchers think and to learn about similar studies. I'd like to visit another research institute that has done similar work to see first hand how they start designing support to help co-users, and maybe use some of their materials - I don't want to reinvent the wheel. Why is this important?Amongst all the substances young adults might use, tobacco and cannabis are two of the most common; bothpose risk to our physical and mental health. Young adulthood represents the age when people typically move from occasional use to more regular or dependent and therefore harmful use, so it is a key time to offer help and support to make safer choices and change use patterns. For example, we know that tobacco smoking is very harmful, and that cannabis use can create real difficulties for some people, but that understanding of the potential harms of cannabis vary widely.Although tobacco and cannabis are very often used together (most people who use cannabis in the UK use it with tobacco) smoking and cannabis services tend to address only one. Young adults might not seek support from existing services designed to address substance use, so we need to find new ways, routes and places to offer help. Problematic use of substances often sits alongside other problems like mental health, , and my PhD findings also showed how much who you are - your ethnicity, sexuality, academic achievement and where you live - might influence your substance use. When thinking about how to help young adults, we need to better understand how to consider all of these factors.Using my conversations with young adults and other researchers, I can develop proposals for specific elements of the toolkit. This might be a teaching pack for a lesson teachers can use; or a mobile phone app which helps someone reduce their substance use. There is no single intervention which fits all - this is why we

该奖学金旨在为共同使用工具包建立路线图 - 这意味着什么？我的博士学位使用了各种研究方法（系统评价，调查和个人访谈）来了解使用烟草和大麻的年轻人如何了解每种经历，以及如何选择减少或停止他们的选择。我了解到很少有任何支持。在这一奖学金中，我将把这些发现直接带回年轻人和其他研究人员，开始就下一步的对话进行对话。使用联合制作方法。在团契结束时，我将制作一个“路线图”，显示从A到B所需的步骤，即；从基于博士学位的发现的想法到完全开发的基于证据的共同制作的资源：“烟草和大麻共同使用工具包”。该工具包可以由年轻人和与年轻人一起工作的人访问，以帮助您做出更安全的选择，并减少他们可能遇到的危害。根据论文中的研究结果，我已经对该工具包中的内容有一些想法，但是仅我的想法还不够，我需要分享它们以确保我采取正确的方法。我在建议什么？在我的博士研究中，我使用调查和访谈问了很多年轻人的问题。但是，我没有机会回到参与其中的人，也没有到他们所研究的大学，说“谢谢 - 这就是我从大家那里学到的东西”。但是我不想让人们听我的声音 - 我想听听他们对发现的东西的看法，令人惊讶或没有意义的东西，以及他们已经试图帮助他们减少使用物质以及所做或不喜欢的东西。我将向员工和学生提供两个“知识交流”研讨会，这是第一个带有初始想法的想法，第二个我收集了信息和资源，这将帮助我计划下一步。我还想为其他研究人员写下我的结果，并在会议上介绍我的发现，以听取其他研究人员的想法并了解类似的研究。我想访问另一家进行类似工作的研究所，以亲眼目睹他们如何开始设计支持以帮助同事，并可能使用他们的一些材料 - 我不想重新发明轮子。为什么这很重要？在所有年轻人可能会使用的所有物质中，烟草和大麻是最常见的两个。对我们身心健康的风险都倾斜。年轻的成年代表人们通常从偶尔使用转变为更常规或依赖的年龄，因此是有害的，因此是提供帮助和支持以做出更安全选择并改变使用模式的关键时机。例如，我们知道吸烟非常有害，大麻的使用可能会给某些人带来真正的困难，但是对大麻潜在危害的理解差异很大。尽管经常使用烟草和大麻（大多数在英国使用大麻的人都会使用烟草和大麻的吸烟）和大麻班的服务来解决一个倾向于地址。年轻人可能不会寻求旨在解决药物使用的现有服务的支持，因此我们需要找到新的方法，路线和地点来提供帮助。有问题的物质使用通常与心理健康等其他问题一起坐着，而我的博士学位结果也表明您是谁 - 您的种族，性，学术成就以及您的生活 - 可能会影响您的药物使用。在考虑如何帮助年轻人时，我们需要更好地了解如何考虑所有这些因素。使用我与年轻人和其他研究人员的对话，我可以为工具包的特定要素提出建议。这可能是教师可以使用的教学包；或手机应用程序，可帮助某人减少其物质使用。没有任何一项干预措施适合所有人 - 这就是为什么我们