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

这个奖学金的目的是建立一个路线图，以一个共同使用的工具包-这是什么意思？我的博士学位使用了各种研究方法（系统综述，调查和个人访谈）来了解使用烟草和大麻的年轻人如何理解他们的经历，以及他们如何选择减少或停止使用它们。我了解到很少有人使用任何支持。在这个奖学金中，我将把这些发现直接带回给年轻人和其他研究人员，开始讨论下一步应该是什么;使用联合生产方法。在奖学金结束时，我将制作一个“路线图”，显示从A到B所需的步骤，也就是说，从我基于博士研究结果的想法到一套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”。年轻人和与年轻人一起工作的人可以使用这个工具包，以帮助他们对药物使用做出更安全的选择，并减少他们可能经历的伤害。根据我论文中的研究结果，我已经对这个工具包中可能包含的内容有了一些想法，但是仅仅有我的想法是不够的，我需要分享它们以确保我采取了正确的方法。我有什么建议？在我的博士研究中，我通过调查和访谈向年轻人提出了很多问题。然而，我没有机会回到那些参与其中的人，也没有机会回到他们学习的大学，说“谢谢你们-这是我从你们身上学到的”。但我不想只是让人们听我说-我想听听他们对我发现的东西的看法，什么让他们感到惊讶或没有意义，他们已经尝试帮助他们减少物质使用，以及他们做了什么或不喜欢。我将提供两个“知识交流”研讨会的工作人员和学生-第一个与初步的想法，第二个后，我已经收集了信息和资源，这将有助于我计划下一步。我也想把我的研究结果写出来给其他研究人员看，并在会议上展示我的发现，听听其他研究人员的想法，了解类似的研究。我想访问另一个做过类似工作的研究机构，亲眼看看他们如何开始设计支持来帮助共同用户，也许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？在青少年可能使用的所有物质中，烟草和大麻是最常见的两种;两者都对我们的身心健康构成威胁。青年期是人们通常从偶尔使用转向更经常或依赖性使用并因此有害使用的年龄，因此这是提供帮助和支持以做出更安全选择和改变使用模式的关键时期。例如，我们知道吸烟是非常有害的，大麻的使用会给一些人带来真实的困难，但对大麻潜在危害的理解却大相径庭。尽管烟草和大麻经常一起使用（在英国，大多数使用大麻的人都使用烟草），但吸烟和大麻服务往往只解决一个问题。年轻人可能不会从现有的旨在解决物质使用问题的服务中寻求支持，因此我们需要找到新的方法，途径和地方来提供帮助。有问题的物质使用往往与其他问题，如心理健康，和我的博士研究结果也表明，你是谁-你的种族，性，学术成就和你住在哪里-可能会影响你的物质使用。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。通过与年轻人和其他研究人员的对话，我可以为工具包的具体内容提出建议。这可能是一个教师可以使用的课程教学包;或者是一个移动的手机应用程序，可以帮助某人减少他们的物质使用。没有一个单一的干预措施适合所有人-这就是为什么我们