The CSI (Climate Schools Interactive) Study: An evaluation of the Climate Schools Ecstasy & Emerging Drugs module in Australian secondary schools

Participating secondary schools will be randomly allocated to one of two groups. One group will serve as the control group and receive their usual drug education in school and the other group with receive the Climate Schools intervention: Climate Schools Intervention The Climate Schools: Ecstasy & Emerging Drugs Module is an online school-based prevention program designed to prevent the use of ecstasy and New and Emerging Drugs (NEDs) and reduce related harms. The intervention consists of four 40-minute lessons delivered as part of the Year 10 PDHPE syllabus. The lessons are intended to be delivered once weekly over a four week period. The first part of each lesson is completed individually over the internet where students view a 15-20 minute cartoon storyline. The second part of each lesson consists of online and group activities designed to reinforce the information in the cartoons and foster interactive communication between students. Teachers are provided with a manual containing the activities, implementation guidelines, links to the education syllabus and summaries for each lesson. To monitor adherence to the intervention, teachers are required to complete an online Fidelity Logbook. The logbooks ask teachers to indicate which lessons and activities they completed with their class and to write down any adaptions they made to the program. To ensure completion of the online component of the intervention, students are required to view the cartoon lesson in full before being granted access the following lesson.