Crossroads: Cooperative High School Drug Prevention

十字路口：合作高中毒品预防

• 批准号: 7898043
• 负责人: MELODIE D FEARNOW-KENNEY
• 金额: $ 8.43万
• 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/7898043
• 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; Learning; Left; Manuals; Mediating; Mediator of activation protein; Mentors; Mission; Modeling; Modification; Monitor; North Carolina; Participant; 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; Small Business Technology Transfer Research; Students; Surveys; Teenagers; Testing; Tobacco; Training; Universities; Youth; adolescent drug use; base; college; drug abuse prevention; drug-free school; early onset; early onset drug use; high school; improved; middle school; peer; prevent; programs; school health; social; teacher; trend; university student; web site

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。高中生对迟发性药物预防和早期停止的需求是巨大的，然而很少有针对高中生中酒精、烟草和其他药物使用的普遍计划。十字路口是一个全球性的毒品预防项目，建立在威尔明顿北卡罗来纳大学的高中同伴教育者、高中健康教师和大学导师之间的合作关系基础上。这是一个多方面的项目，包括以同学为主导的课堂会议，全校范围的社会规范活动，全校范围的毒品信息摊位，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。十字路口网站提供了组织所有这些组件和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项目材料和网站，2)进行独立评估的随机现场试验，以评估项目的有效性。十字路口将有助于坦格伍德研究和SBIR/STTR项目的共同使命，即开发、测试和传播防止青少年吸毒的高效教育材料。这个研究项目有可能改善高中生的健康和幸福。此外，它还可以为预防领域提供有关减少这一得不到服务的青年群体开始吸毒和鼓励早日戒烟的有效战略的信息。