A Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Abuse among Adolescent Girls

预防青春期女孩吸毒的网络干预措施

• 批准号: 8604383
• 负责人: Traci M Schwinn
• 金额: $ 62.86万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIV NEW YORK MORNINGSIDE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-02-15 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8604383
• 关键词: 14 year old; Address; Adoption; Age; Applications Grants; Assertiveness; Authorization documentation; Beauty; Behavioral; Belief; Body Image; Censuses; Cognitive; Communication; Communities; Country; Data Analyses; Data Collection; Drug usage; Enrollment; Environment; Ethnic Origin; Event; Feedback; Female Adolescents; Friends; Gender; Geographic Locations; Geography; Goals; Health; Hispanics; Housing; Institution; Internet; Intervention; Knowledge; Learning; Link; Longitudinal Studies; Marketing; Measurement; Measures; Mediator of activation protein; Mental Depression; Monitor; Moods; Music; Online Systems; Participant; Pharmaceutical Preparations; Pilot Projects; Play; Prevention; Prevention program; Problem Solving; Publishing; Race; Randomized; Randomized Clinical Trials; Recruitment Activity; Relative (related person); Reporting; Research; Research Design; Research Project Grants; Risk; Role; Sampling; Schools; Science; Self Efficacy; Simulate; Technology; Teenagers; Testing; Time; Training; United States; Work; Youth; adolescent drug use; age group; aged; arm; base; boys; coping; cost; design; drug abuse prevention; efficacy testing; follow-up; girls; intervention effect; literacy; new technology; news; novel; parental involvement; peer; peer influence; programs; prototype; randomized trial; response; self esteem; simulation; skills; social; social cognitive theory; social networking website; theories; virtual; web interface; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The planned study in this research grant application addresses the problem of growing and unacceptably high rates of drug use among adolescent girls in the United States. We propose to develop and test an interactive, web-based program to prevent drug abuse and delay the onset of drug use among girls. Study participants will be 13- and 14-year-old girls recruited from Facebook. Facebook is the largest and most popular social networking site in the United States, with an enrollment of 44 percent of all 13- and 14-year-old girls. Grounded in social cognitive theory and within a resiliency framework, the prevention program will equip girls with cognitive-behavioral skills to address peer and social influences, self-esteem, depression, and body- image issues associated with drug use among adolescent girls. All girls will access measures online. Girls in the intervention arm will access the program's initial sessions and annual booster sessions online. The gender- specific content will be housed as a menu of sessions embedded on a website offering girls access to current events, entertainment news, horoscopes, inspirational quotes, health and beauty tips, and other age- and gender-relevant features. Through virtual role-play simulations, the sessions will employ emotionally responsive avatars and a branched learning environment through which girls can acquire, try out, receive feedback on, and master new cognitive-behavioral skills. Interactive and gender-specific prevention content will give the program thematic coherence and enhance its attraction and value to adolescent girls. The study design is a randomized clinical trial. Recruited from across the United States, 13- and 14-year- old girls will be enrolled when they assent to study participation and obtain parental permission. Online, all girls will complete pretest measures; intervention-arm girls will interact with the prevention program, and all girls will complete posttest measures and 1-, 2-, and 3-year follow-up measures. Intervention-arm girls will additionally receive booster sessions after they complete 1- and 2-year follow-ups. Across follow-up measurement occasions, data analyses will examine rates of past 30-day drug use and drug use initiation between the intervention and control arms. We will also examine intervention effects on mediator variables associated with drug use risk and protective factors. And, we will assess the extent to which changes in mediator variables explain differences in drug use between arms.

描述（由申请人提供）：本研究赠款申请中的计划研究解决了美国青春期女孩中毒品使用率增长和不可接受的问题的问题。我们建议开发和测试一个基于网络的互动，以防止药物滥用并延迟女孩中吸毒的发作。学习参与者将是从Facebook招募的13岁和14岁的女孩。 Facebook是美国最大，最受欢迎的社交网络网站，在所有13岁和14岁的女孩中占44％。以社会认知理论和弹性框架为基础，预防计划将使女孩具有认知行为的技能，以解决与青少年女孩中与吸毒相关的同伴和社会影响，自尊，抑郁和身体形象问题。所有女孩将在线访问措施。干预部门的女孩将在线访问该计划的初次会议和年度助推器会议。特定于性别的内容将被安置为嵌入在网站上的会话菜单，可让女孩访问时事，娱乐新闻，星座运输，励志名言，健康和美容技巧以及其他年龄和性别与与性别相关的功能。通过虚拟的角色扮演模拟，会议将采用情感响应式的化身和分支学习环境，女孩可以通过这些化身来获取，尝试，接收反馈，并掌握新的认知行为技巧。互动和特定性别的预防内容将赋予程序主题连贯性，并增强其对青少年女孩的吸引力和价值。研究设计是一项随机临床试验。从美国各地招募的13岁和14岁的女孩在同意学习参与并获得父母许可时将被招募。在线，所有女孩都将完成预测试措施；干预臂女孩将与预防计划互动，所有女孩将完成后测措施以及1年，2年和3年的随访措施。干预臂女孩完成1年和2年的随访后，还将接受助推器会议。在后续测量场合，数据分析将检查过去30天的药物使用和干预和控制臂之间使用药物使用的速率。我们还将检查对与药物使用风险和保护因素相关的调解人变量的干预影响。而且，我们将评估调解器变量的变化解释臂之间的药物使用差异的程度。