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The primary objective of this study is to collect insights from first responders and military personnel on their need for, use of, and interest in physical and/or mental health medical marijuana or psychedelic-assisted therapy programs. These preliminary data will help to inform and guide the development of a larger patient-oriented study and the design of a clinical program geared towards enhancing therapy treatments for first responders and military personnel.


Clinical Trial Description

Members of first response teams including police, firefighters, paramedics, and military personnel in Canada, the United States, Oceana, and Europe will be asked to participate. The majority of these teams are unionized, consisting of municipal, provincial and federally organized unions throughout Canada, United States, Oceana and Europe. Whenever possible, the research team will provide an invitation to its members via union representatives. These unions are a trusted source for first responders and military personnel as they are intended to have the best interests of these first responders in mind. The union representatives possess the contact information of the first responders and military personnel. The unions routinely circulate e-mails to members that include information relevant for members such as upcoming events, important meetings, team activities on and off-duty, and opportunities to participate in research. Emails with the link to the survey will be circulated to members approximately every month for 3 months, or until at least 1000 participants have responded. The link to the survey may also be shared through personal connections among first responders and/or word of mouth. Participants will be sent a link to open an anonymous survey which they can complete at their location and time of choosing. Once the survey link has been accessed by a potential participant, background information will be provided regarding the project that includes an informed consent statement. Participants may leave the survey at any time should they wish to discontinue. The survey will be distributed to first responders and military personnel using an online questionnaire. This survey will contain questions about basic demographics, history of mental health conditions, satisfaction with current life status, past use of cannabis and other psychedelic substances, and interest and potential barriers in trying psychedelic or medical marijuana-assisted physical or mental health therapy in a research or clinical context. The Brief Inventory of Psychosocial Functioning (13) and a subset of questions from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Quick Screen (14) have been integrated into the survey to enhance reliability and validity of results. The survey will take approximately 15 minutes to complete. Once the survey has been submitted, participants will have the option to click a link to enter their email address using a separate collection form, if they would like to be contacted for future research opportunities. The list of email addresses will not be linked to the survey results. Data will be analyzed from all completed (fully or partially) and submitted surveys. Every question will contain a "Prefer Not to Say" option if a response is mandatory. ;


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NCT number NCT04965740
Study type Observational
Source Empower Research Inc
Contact
Status Completed
Phase
Start date June 4, 2021
Completion date February 15, 2022

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