Prevention Buffet: An Internet Prevention Resource for Middle Schools

描述（由申请人提供）：这个STTR第一阶段提案的目标是开发一个可搜索的预防课程互联网数据库，称为“预防自助餐”。该数据库将允许中学教师根据学生的需要在课堂上定制预防工作，同时为他们提供选择和实施预防课程的指导。将根据公认的预防科学理论编写课程，并将针对青少年药物使用的已知中介因素（例如风险和保护因素）。与现有的校本课程相比，预防自助餐将提供许多优势。值得注意的是，它将为学校提供一种廉价的手段，使他们能够获得以科学为基础的预防课程，以便在课堂或指导课堂上使用。它还将为教师提供灵活性，使他们能够根据易于获取的需求评估数据选择符合学生需求和特点的课程。在第一阶段str项目中，我们将采用三步流程来创建和测试预防自助餐。首先，我们将(1)提供一个简短的在线指导，旨在教育教师如何有效地预防物质使用，(2)开发一个课堂需求评估，以帮助教师确定青少年最突出的需求，(3)开发预防自助网站的基础设施（例如，搜索引擎功能，课程计划数据库），以及(4)招募预防专家担任活动开发人员，并创建最初的20项活动。其次，我们将通过将开发的活动提交给预防科学家审查来评估活动质量。我们将根据科学家的反馈修改活动。第三，我们将对12名健康教育教师进行可用性测试，以证明可行性。预防自助餐有可能成为一种商业上可行的资源，可以被全国各地的中学教师随时使用。在第二阶段，我们将改进、扩大并开展一项随机对照有效性试验，以证明预防自助餐作为一种预防策略的有效性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this STTR Phase I proposal is to develop a searchable Internet database of prevention lessons called Prevention Buffet. The database will allow middle school teachers to customize prevention efforts in their classrooms to the needs of their students, while providing them with guidance in selecting and implementing prevention lessons. Lessons will be developed based on well-established theories in prevention science, and will target known mediators of adolescent substance use (e.g., risk and protective factors). Prevention Buffet will provide many advantages over existing school-based curricula. Notably, it will provide an inexpensive means for schools to have access to science-based prevention lessons for use in a classroom or guidance class setting. It will also provide flexibility for teachers to select lessons that meet the needs and characteristics of their students based on easily accessible needs assessment data. During this Phase I STTR project we will employ a three-step process for creating and testing Prevention Buffet. First, we will (1) provide a brief online orientation designed to educate teachers about effective mediators of substance use prevention, (2) develop an classroom needs assessment to assist teachers in determining needs most salient for their youth, (3) develop the infrastructure of the Prevention Buffet website (e.g., search engine capability, database for lesson plans), and (4) recruit prevention specialists to serve as activity developers and create an initial set of 20 activities. Second, we will assess activity quality by submitting the developed activities to prevention scientists for review. We will revise activities based on the feedback from scientists. Third, we will conduct a usability test with 12 health education teachers with the purpose of demonstrating feasibility. Prevention Buffet has the potential to be a commercially viable resource that may be readily used by teachers in middle schools throughout the nation. During Phase II we will improve, expand, and conduct a randomized controlled effectiveness trial to demonstrate the effectiveness of Prevention Buffet as a prevention strategy. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Substance use among adolescents continues to be a major public health concern. The proposed program, Prevention Buffet, has the potential to provide middle school teachers with instructional tools that may effectively and efficiently prevention or deter the onset of substance use among this population.