Reducing High School Athletes' Prescription Opioids Misuse and Diversion Through the Student Athlete Wellness Portal
Overview
- Phase
- N/A
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Prescription Opioid Misuse
- Sponsor
- Real Prevention, LLC
- Enrollment
- 102
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- Efficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 2 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The goal of this study is to prevent prescription opioid misuse among high school athletes by developing, demonstrating the feasibility, and evaluating the outcomes of an innovative digital intervention.
Detailed Description
The goal of this proposal is to prevent prescription opioid misuse among high school athletes by developing, demonstrating the feasibility, and evaluating the outcomes of an innovative digital intervention. The new program, the Student Athlete Wellness Portal (SAWP), will be a brief, web- and smartphone-based curriculum, and will encourage resistance to cultural influences to misuse prescription opioids. This portal, which was created based on formative interviews with athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, and school administrators, will be tested in a feasibility trial. One hundred and two high school athletes completed a pretest, participated in the treatment (the SAWP) and completed posttest assess their knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors relating to opioid medication.
Investigators
Michael Hecht
President
Real Prevention, LLC
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •English-speaking male and female adolescents
- •Ages 13-19
- •Attending middle or high school
- •Playing at last one interscholastic sport
- •Parental consent
Exclusion Criteria
- •No parental consent
- •outside the age range
- •not participating in interscholastic sports
- •not in middle or high school
- •participated in the Phase I research
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Efficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids
Time Frame: Posttest.
2 items measuring the degree (scale 1-5) to which participants felt confident resisting offers of prescription opioids. Range 1-5, with higher scores reflecting more efficacy.
Usability
Time Frame: Posttest
10 items in agree-disagree format (sale 1-5) modified from the SUS scale to measure the useability of a website. Range 1-5, higher scores reflect better usability.
Engagement
Time Frame: Posttest
8 items in agree-disagree (scale 1-5) format to measure the degree to which a participant felt engaged with the website. Range 1-5, with higher scores reflecting more engagement. Subscales of interest, realism, and identification.
Number of Participants Willing to Misuse Prescription Opioids
Time Frame: Posttest
2 items measured participants' willing to misuse opioids. Each presented a scenario followed by a checklist, each with 6 options indicating possible responses to opioid offers. For analyses, items were dichotomized to indicate if participants were willing to misuse (1) or not willing (0). If they checked any of the choices indicating they were willing to misuse prescription opioids, they were scored 1, which is the worst outcome. Range 0-1.