Technology Transfer of the ATLAS and ATHENA Programs

ATLAS 和 ATHENA 计划的技术转让

• 批准号: 7998023
• 负责人: LINN GOLDBERG
• 金额: $ 16.95万
• 依托单位: ODYSSEY SCIENCE INNOVATIONS, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7998023
• 关键词: Administrator; Adolescent; Adoption; Alcohol consumption; Alcohol or Other Drugs use; Alcohols; Anabolic steroids; Athletic; Behavior; Budgets; Calcium; Diet; Diffusion; Drug usage; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Elements; Environment; Exercise; Feedback; Female; Fostering; Goals; Health Promotion; Health behavior; Hour; Illicit Drugs; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Lead; Learning; Mediation; Mediator of activation protein; Methodology; National Institute of Drug Abuse; Online Systems; Performance; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Phase; Prevention; Prevention program; Proteins; Reaction; Reaction Time; Research; Risk; Schools; Secondary Schools; Shapes; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Social Network; Sports; Staging; Steroids; Students; Substance abuse problem; System; Technology; Technology Transfer; Testing; Time; Training; Treatment Efficacy; Youth; base; behavior change; conditioning; cost; design; evidence base; experience; food quality; high school; improved; innovation; interest; male; novel; nutrition; peer; pill; prevent; programs; public health relevance; satisfaction; sports related nutrition; substance abuse prevention; substance use prevention; success; usability; virtual

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over 7.5 million high school students participate in high school sports programs and an additional 2 million students join these athletic teams each year. Adolescent athletes are at risk for using performance enhancing drugs, such as anabolic steroids, unregulated sport supplements, and illicit drugs and alcohol. Unfortunately, few evidence-based substance abuse prevention programs are designed for high schools. The ATLAS (Athletes Training & Learning to Avoid Steroids) program for high school male athletes and the ATHENA (Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise & Nutrition Alternatives) program for high school female athletes, studied with National Institute on Drug Abuse support, have established evidence of effectiveness in 1) preventing substance use and 2) enhancing healthy behaviors. The programs are peer taught and facilitated by coaches within the high school sport team. Although the programs have been disseminated to 36 states and approximately 70,000 student-athletes and their coaches, this represents less than 0.25% of the high school athletes participating in sports during the same time frame. A significant barrier to more widespread implementation of ATLAS and ATHENA is the loss of team practice time when implementing the interventions, as there are ten, 45 minute sessions for ATLAS and eight, 45 minute sessions for ATHENA. Also, school sports are extracurricular, often without a budget for curriculum based interventions. To overcome these barriers, Phase I of this STTR proposal will initiate the transfer of ATLAS and ATHENA to an innovative online version. Six activities, (3 ATLAS and 3 ATHENA) will be transferred to a content-rich online versions that can be implemented by students with high fidelity. The new version's feasibility and level of acceptance will be assessed, comparing it with the standard version of the programs with groups of student-athletes and coaches. This will set the stage for Phase II, wherein other activities will be placed online, augmented with student-athlete social networking and training videos for coaches. The influence of the team will continue, but in an abbreviated fashion. The final online version will reduce the time spent by coaching staff by approximately 66%, while intervention costs will be decreased by 75%. This will be appealing to both the school administrators (purchasers of the programs) and coaches (program implementers). Furthermore, program availability will be increased to 24 hours/day, 7 days each week. This technological transfer of evidence-based curricula will overcome impediments to adoption, implementation and sustainability, while retaining the mediators of behavior change, and reducing substance abuse among youth. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The project will initiate transfer the ATLAS and ATHENA programs, scientifically proven to prevent drug and alcohol use and improve health behaviors among high school athletes, to a low-cost, innovative web-based version of the programs. This enhanced, content-rich version will enhance ATLAS and ATHENA's widespread use among high schools at a fraction of the cost, in a highly efficient manner.

描述（由申请人提供）：超过750万高中生参加高中体育项目，每年还有200万学生加入这些运动队。青少年运动员有使用提高成绩的药物的风险，如合成代谢类固醇，不受管制的运动补充剂，以及非法药物和酒精。不幸的是，很少有基于证据的药物滥用预防计划是为高中设计的。ATLAS（运动员训练和学习避免类固醇）计划高中男运动员和ATHENA（运动员针对健康运动和营养替代品）计划高中女运动员，在国家药物滥用研究所的支持下研究，已经建立了有效性的证据1）预防物质使用和2）增强健康行为。这些项目是由高中运动队的教练进行同伴教学和促进的。虽然这些方案已传播到36个州和大约70，000名学生运动员及其教练，但这只占同期参加体育运动的高中运动员的不到0.25%。ATLAS和ATHENA更广泛实施的一个重大障碍是在实施干预措施时损失团队练习时间，因为ATLAS有10个45分钟的课程，ATHENA有8个45分钟的课程。此外，学校体育是课外活动，往往没有预算用于基于课程的干预措施。为了克服这些障碍，STTR提案的第一阶段将启动ATLAS和ATHENA向创新在线版本的转移。六个活动（3个ATLAS和3个ATHENA）将被转移到内容丰富的在线版本，可以由学生以高保真度实施。新版本的可行性和接受程度将进行评估，将其与标准版本的计划与学生运动员和教练组进行比较。这将为第二阶段奠定基础，在第二阶段，其他活动将放在网上，增加学生运动员社交网络和教练培训视频。团队的影响力将继续，但以一种简短的方式。最终的在线版本将减少教练工作人员花费的时间约66%，而干预成本将减少75%。这将吸引学校管理人员（项目购买者）和教练（项目实施者）。此外，计划的可用性将增加到每周7天，每天24小时。这种循证课程的技术转让将克服采用、实施和可持续性方面的障碍，同时保留行为改变的调解人，并减少青年人的药物滥用。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将启动转移ATLAS和ATHENA计划，科学证明，以防止药物和酒精的使用，并改善高中运动员的健康行为，以低成本，创新的网络版本的程序。这个增强的，内容丰富的版本将提高ATLAS和ATHENA的广泛使用高中的一小部分成本，在一个高效的方式。