Crossroads: Cooperative High School Drug Prevention

十字路口：合作高中毒品预防

• 批准号: 7276610
• 负责人: MELODIE D FEARNOW-KENNEY
• 金额: $ 20.86万
• 依托单位: PREVENTION STRATEGIES, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-15 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7276610
• 关键词: Address; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Communication; Data; Development; Discipline; Drug Prevention Program; Drug usage; Education; Educational Materials; Effectiveness; Feedback; Focus Groups; Funding; Future; Goals; Health; Individual; Internet; Learning; Left; Manuals; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mentors; Mission; Modeling; Modification; Monitor; North Carolina; Participant; Personal Satisfaction; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Policies; Population; Prevention; Prevention education; Prevention program; Primary Prevention; Program Effectiveness; Public Health; Randomized; Recruitment Activity; Reporting; Research; Research Infrastructure; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Schedule; Schools; Science; Secondary Prevention; Site; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Students; Surveys; Teenagers; Testing; Tobacco; Training; Universities; Youth; adolescent drug use; base; college; drug abuse prevention; early onset; early onset drug use; high school; improved; peer; prevent; programs; social; teacher; trend; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Adolescent drug use continues to be a major public health problem. The need for late onset drug prevention and early cessation in high schools is great, yet few universal programs exist that target alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use among high school students. Crossroads is a universal drug prevention program based on a cooperative relationship between high school peer educators, high school health teachers, and college mentors at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. This is a multifaceted program that includes peer-led classroom sessions, school-wide social norms campaigns, school-wide drug information booths, and mentoring provided by college students at the Crossroads Prevention Center at UNC Wilmington. The infrastructure needed to organize all of these components and facilitate communication between all participants is provided by the Crossroads Web Site. This Phase II STTR has two objectives: 1) to refine all program materials and the web site based on lessons learned during Phase I and 2) conduct an independently evaluated randomized field trial to assess the effectiveness of the program. Crossroads will contribute to the shared mission of Tanglewood Research and the SBIR/STTR program to develop, test, and disseminate highly effective educational materials for preventing drug use among teens. This research project has the potential to improve the health and well being of high school students. In addition, it can inform the field of prevention regarding effective strategies for reducing drug use onset and encouraging early cessation among this under served group of young people.

描述（由申请人提供）：青少年吸毒仍然是一个主要的公共卫生问题。高中预防晚发毒品和提前戒毒的需求非常大，但针对高中生酗酒、吸烟和其他毒品使用的普遍方案却很少。 Crossroads 是一项全民毒品预防计划，以北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校高中同伴教育者、高中健康教师和大学导师之间的合作关系为基础。这是一个多方面的计划，包括同伴主导的课堂课程、全校范围的社会规范活动、全校范围的毒品信息亭以及由北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校十字路口预防中心的大学生提供的指导。 Crossroads 网站提供了组织所有这些组件并促进所有参与者之间通信所需的基础设施。第二阶段 STTR 有两个目标：1) 根据第一阶段的经验教训完善所有计划材料和网站，2) 进行独立评估的随机现场试验，以评估该计划的有效性。 Crossroads 将为 Tanglewood Research 和 SBIR/STTR 计划的共同使命做出贡献，即开发、测试和传播高效的教育材料，以防止青少年吸毒。该研究项目有潜力改善高中生的健康和福祉。此外，它还可以为预防领域提供有关减少吸毒发作和鼓励这一服务不足的年轻人群体尽早戒毒的有效策略的信息。