European drug addiction prevention trial

Completed

• Conditions: Drug addiction; Mental and Behavioural Disorders

• Registration Number: ISRCTN18092805
• Lead Sponsor: Piedmont Centre for Drug Addiction Epidemiology (OED) (Italy)

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2007-03-30
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2015

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 6600

Inclusion Criteria

The study population consists of students 12 to 14 years of age, attending junior high grades in the administrative areas of the participating centers. Criteria for the selection of the age group were the usually low prevalence of substance use and the feasibility of two-years follow-up during compulsory school attendance. Inclusion criteria for the schools were:
1. Presence of at least two classes in the target grade
2. To be part of the mainstream national educational system (schools for students with special pedagogic needs and confessional schools were excluded)
3. Consent to participate
4. Not currently conducting structured interventions against substance use

Exclusion Criteria

Schools for students with special pedagogic needs and confessional schools, and schools currently conducting structured interventions against substance use were excluded.

Exclusion criteria at the students? level were: own incapability to participate in the survey or parents? refusal to allow participation.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified