PROJECT TOWARDS NO DRUG ABUSE COMPONENTS ANALYSIS

描述：（申请人摘要） 该提案是对RFA 00-004“下一代药物滥用”的回应。 预防研究。“我们建议研究两者的相对重要性， 校本“迈向无毒”计划的理论内容 在预防药物滥用对烟草的影响方面， 酒精、大麻和硬性毒品使用（认知感知与行为 技能，与其组合）。TND项目是一个经过经验验证的 表示药物滥用预防方案，这表明积极的一年 结果超过三个实验复制试验。指令将被 由经验丰富的项目工作人员、健康教育工作者和学校提供 教师最近在该计划中接受培训，作为检查实施者的一种手段， 特色方案内容和实施者的影响 特征将在两个不同的青年群体中进行研究， 背景定义的风险，在一个随机的实验设计。项目和 学校工作人员提供的课堂计划将在12个高中实施 与4所标准护理（对照）条件学校相比， 七条件随机设计在两个学校环境中重复 （传统和替代高中，共32所学校）。我们将评估 基线（预测试）、项目后（即时）学生药物使用行为 测试后）和1年随访。我们将应用一系列复杂的 模型来分析收集到的数据， 和调节效应，如由假设产生的， 的理论基础。

DESCRIPTION: (Applicant's Abstract) This proposal is a response to RFA 00-004, "The Next Generation of Drug Abuse Prevention Research." We propose to examine the relative importance of the two theoretical content components of the school-based Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) curricula in effecting drug abuse prevention effects on tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and hard drug use (cognitive perception versus behavioral skills, versus their combination). Project TND is an empirically validated indicated drug abuse prevention program, which has shown positive one-year outcomes over three experimental replication trials. Instruction will be provided by both experienced project staff health educators and school teachers recently trained in the program as a means of examining implementer characteristics. The impact of the program content and implementer characteristics will be examined in two cohorts of youth varying in contextually defined risk, in a randomized experimental design. Project and school staff-delivered classroom programs will be implemented in 12 high schools and compared to 4 standard care (control) condition schools, in a seven-condition randomized design replicated across two school contexts (traditional and alternative high schools, 32 schools total). We will assess student drug use behavior at baseline (pretest), post program (immediate post-test), and 1-year follow-up. We will apply a series of sophisticated models to analyze the collected data for potential experimental, mediational and moderational effects as specified by hypotheses generated from the underlying theoretical base.