Cannabis Use
Conditions
Keywords
youth cannabis education health prevention
Brief summary
The Stanford REACH Lab's SMART TALK: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit is a free, online educational resource to be used by educators to increase knowledge and awareness of cannabis and reduce use among youth. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which the curriculum changes middle and high school students' intentions to use and actual use of cannabis.
Detailed description
Smart Talk includes 5 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth cannabis use, including changing adolescents' attitudes towards and misperceptions about cannabis; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of marketing and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to cannabis initiation and use; improving coping skills; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all cannabis products.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALBehavioral: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention
Behavioral:Smart Talk includes 5 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth cannabis use, including changing adolescents' attitudes towards and misperceptions about cannabis; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of marketing and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to cannabis initiation and use; improving coping skills; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all cannabis products.
Sponsors
Stanford University
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
10 Years to 20 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Middle school and high school students receiving health education at schools participating in the study
Exclusion criteria
\-
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in cannabis use | Baseline to follow-up at approximately 182 weeks | Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) assess ever cannabis use \& past 30-day cannabis use. This outcome measure assesses cannabis use. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change in intention to use cannabis in the future | Baseline to follow-up at approximately 182 weeks | Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) assessing change in participant intention to use cannabis in the future |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORBonnie Halpern Felsher, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Outcome results
None listed