Brief Voluntary Alcohol and Drug Intervention for Middle School Youth
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Los Angeles |
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California |
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Alcohol Drinking - Cigarette Smoking - Marijuana Smoking |
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We are currently working in 16 middle schools across Los Angeles, Santa Monica and Torrance
to test out a voluntary after school program called Project CHOICE, which focuses on helping
students decrease their alcohol and drug use. We are conducting surveys in all schools over
three years and providing the intervention in 8 schools in the 2008-2009 school year and in
the other 8 schools in the 2011-2012 school year. This is a program we have provided before
in middle schools and we found that it was effective in curbing alcohol and drug use among
students who voluntarily attended and among all students at the intervention school.
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The middle school years are peak years for initiation of alcohol and marijuana (Johnston et
al., 2007). Unfortunately, most youth who engage in substance use and experience problems
are unlikely to voluntarily make use of formal prevention services (D'Amico, 2005; Johnson
et al., 2001; Wu et al., 2003). A small body of recent research suggests that youth may
benefit from less formal programs that are brief, voluntary, and easily accessible (Brown,
2001; D'Amico et al., 2005). However, very few intervention programs of this type have been
developed (Little and Harris, 2003). Thus, while this approach shows promise, the impact of
intervention programs that younger teens may choose to attend has not been extensively
examined. One such intervention, Project CHOICE, was developed and tested by the PI using
NIAAA funding for developmental work (R21AA13284). Project CHOICE is the only voluntary
intervention that has been tested for middle school youth and our small quasi-experimental
study has demonstrated its efficacy in one school setting (D'Amico and Edelen, in press;
D'Amico et al., 2005). The Project CHOICE intervention addresses several critical gaps in
the field, including beginning to understand voluntary service utilization among this age
group and assessing how this type of program may impact school-wide use of alcohol and other
drugs (AOD). The main objective of the proposed 5-year longitudinal study is to build on our
initial work by conducting a more rigorous test of Project CHOICE. The study will include 16
middle schools, located in the ethnically diverse Southern California cities of Los Angeles,
Santa Monica, and Torrance. These schools will be randomly assigned as intervention (n= 8)
or control (n = 8). We will first examine individual-level effects by testing whether
Project CHOICE affects AOD-related outcomes among students who participate in the
intervention. We will then examine school-level effects by testing whether AOD rates among
all students in the intervention schools are affected, regardless of participation. We
assume that these school-level effects will be due to changes in the school environment
(e.g., Project CHOICE advertising, discussion of Project CHOICE among students, changes in
social norms). In anticipation of this school-level impact, a secondary objective of this
study is to gain a better understanding of who participates in Project CHOICE, as well as
how these participants and changes in the school environment may influence the attitudes and
behaviors of those who do not participate. This research incorporates a novel methodology
for AOD involvement, as it emphasizes personal self-change efforts and natural recovery and
is appealing to both using and non-using youth. The work proposed in this application
represents the important next step in this line of research: to more critically evaluate
Project CHOICE and its potential impact on both school-wide and individual outcomes with a
larger population of youth.
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Inclusion Criteria: Adolescents between the ages of 11 and 15 who are currently attending
one of 16 selected middle schools across Los Angeles, Torrance, and Santa Monica -
Exclusion Criteria: None
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NCT01081119 |
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Principal Investigator
Elizabeth J. D'Amico, PhD
RAND Corporation
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N/A |
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Los Angeles, California
United States
There is no listed contact information for this specific location.
Site Status: N/A |
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ClinicalTrials.gov |
| Date Processed: |
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May 21, 2013 |
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