Substance Use Prevention Campaign for American Indian Youth

Adolescent Substance Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

Substance Use Prevention Campaign for American Indian Youth

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03051633
• Other study ID #: R01DA035141
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 15, 2014
• Est. completion date: May 16, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: Colorado State University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of a successful anti-drug communications campaign (Be Under your Own Influence) to lower substance use among AI 7th graders. The campaign uses messages that support youths' personal autonomy and future aspirations, and these messages are delivered to 7th graders using high school students. Our goal is to develop a turnkey package for the broader population of AI youth and schools and to develop components that can incorporate flexibility and creativity in their delivery.

Description:

Substance use is a particularly dangerous risk to middle-school youth, and American Indian (AI) youth are at increased risk. We have found over the course of more than three decades that substance use among AI youth is consistently higher than that of other ethnic/racial groups.

Schools are often the site for adolescent drug prevention efforts, but results from these efforts are often modest or even disappointing. This intervention adapts an existing campaign (Be Under Your Own Influence; BUYOI) that has been found to be effective in reducing substance use and that uses campaign messages that are congruent with AI culture. The intervention will be adapted using significant contributions from tribal members, including youth, teachers, parents, elders, and other community members. This proposal includes active involvement of local advisory boards, hiring of a local AI liaison, focus groups, a youth photo voice component, and use of AI staff from our Center and from the Native American Cultural Center at our university.

The adapted anti-drug and alcohol use communications campaign will be delivered by selected high school students to 7th grade students. A distinguishing feature of the BUYOI campaign is a message that targets outcome expectations related to aspirations, autonomy, and physical harms. The campaign will use multiple channels of communication including print (e.g., posters and fliers), video and audio spots, presentations, and social media to deliver messages that are designed to alter outcome expectancies, intentions, and ultimately substance use among targeted youth.

The campaign will be delivered to two cohorts of 7th graders, with 4 longitudinal measurement occasions for each cohort. Five middle schools (and their corresponding high schools) have been recruited for the study, where three of these will be randomly assigned to the intervention condition and two to the control condition. Multilevel data analysis will test for effects of campaign exposure on autonomy, aspirations, perceived harm, and intentions to use.

Because of the heavy involvement of the school and community in the development and delivery of the intervention, we will be able to incorporate sustainability into the design of all integrated components. Ultimately, our goal is to develop a turnkey package for the broader population of reservation-based AI youth and schools and to develop components that can incorporate flexibility and creativity in their delivery. For example, a school or local group may implement the campaign in its original form or they may modify aspects to make them more pertinent to their community.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 528
• Est. completion date: May 16, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: May 16, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 11 Years to 14 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Attend 7th grade in targeted schools that are on or near American Indian reservation and have received parental consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• No parental consent

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Adolescent Substance Use

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Be Under Your Own Influence
School based anti-drug use communications campaign

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Colorado State University

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Alcohol Initiation	The number of students who self-reported initiated alcohol for the first time during the study period	18 months
Primary	Alcohol Intoxication Initiation	Number of participants self-reporting first-time alcohol intoxication initiation during the study period.	18 months
Primary	Marijuana Initiation	Number of participants who self-reported first-time marijuana use initiation during the study period	18 months