Elementary School Mindfulness-Based Substance Use Prevention Program

项目描述(申请人提供)：该项目将完成为小学后期儿童提供的正念教育药物滥用预防措施Master Mind的开发和效果评估。过去的研究发现，正念对年轻人有很多好处，比如增加注意力、社交能力和情绪调节，以及减少压力、睡眠问题、抑郁、焦虑和外在行为。正念训练可能会为儿童提供应对压力的新方法，并在各种情况下做出健康的决定，从而防止儿童转向酒精或烟草来解决他们的问题。现有的预防药物滥用课程都没有包括任何正念训练或将正念技能应用到儿童的日常生活中。大师计划旨在通过提供适合发展的、沉思的教育实践，解决当代预防规划内容中的这些关键差距。因此，为小学生开发和营销经验性的正念教育和药物滥用预防计划可以为教师、学校管理人员和预防专家提供目前无法获得的资源。在头脑大师课程中，孩子们参加专注于正念基础(例如，对思想的觉知)的活动，包括正念运动、正念呼吸和正念旅程，最重要的是学习如何将正念技能应用到他们的日常生活中。在这个项目的第二阶段，为期四周的大师思维项目将完成，专家们将在正念、瑜伽、儿童自我调节、教学设计和实施忠诚度方面提供意见，以及小学教师和学生的意见。在这个项目的第一年，小学生将参加焦点小组，预习课程并就正念活动提供反馈。随后，将在两个小学教室(一个第4教室和一个第5教室)对修订后的方案进行试点研究，以观察修订后的Master Mind方案的执行情况，并与教师和学生一起试验整个数据收集方案。在项目的第二年，我们将进行一项随机对照试验(20个干预教室和20个轮候名单对照教室)，以测试Master Mind计划在提高儿童自我调节能力方面的有效性，进而减少他们使用和实际使用酒精或烟草的意图。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will complete the development of and evaluate the efficacy of Master Mind, a mindfulness education substance abuse prevention for late elementary school-aged children. Past research has found that mindfulness has many benefits for youth, such as increases in attention, social competence, and emotion regulation, as well as decreases in stress, sleep problems, depression, anxiety, and externalizing behaviors. Training in mindfulness may provide children with new ways to cope with stress and make healthy decisions in a variety of situations, thereby preventing children from turning to alcohol or tobacco to solve their problems. None of the existing substance abuse prevention curricula include any mindfulness training or application of mindfulness skills to children's everyday lives. The Master Mind program is designed to address these critical gaps in the content of contemporary prevention programming through providing developmentally appropriate, contemplative education practices. Hence, the development and marketing of an empirically- validated, mindfulness education, substance abuse prevention program for elementary school students can provide teachers, school administrators, and prevention specialists with a currently unavailable resource. In Master Mind, children participate in activitis focused on the foundations of mindfulness (e.g., awareness of thoughts) including mindful movements, mindful breathing, and mindful journeys, and most importantly, learn how to apply the mindfulness skills to their everyday lives. In Phase II of this project, the four-week Master Mind program will be completed with input from experts in mindfulness, yoga, children's self- regulation, instructional design, and implementation fidelity, as well as with input from elementary school teachers and students. In the first year of this project, elementary school students will participate in focus groups to preview the lessons and provide feedback on the mindfulness activities. Following this, a pilot study of the revised program will be conducted two elementary school classrooms (one 4th and one 5th) to observe the implementation of the revised Master Mind program and pilot the entire data collection protocol with teachers and students. In year two of the project, we will conduct a randomized controlled trial (20 intervention classrooms and 20 wait-list control classrooms) of the effectiveness of the Master Mind program for improving children's self-regulatory abilities and in turn, reducing their intentions to use and actual use of alcohol or tobacco.