An Evaluation of the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Vaping Intervention
- Conditions
- AddictionTobacco Use Cessation
- Registration Number
- NCT06483412
- Lead Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Brief Summary
The Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Curriculum is a free, online curriculum developed to educate students and provide them with resources to quit tobacco/nicotine use. The investigation aims to estimate the extent to which Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension changes high school student's knowledge of, attitudes towards, intentions to use, and actual use of tobacco/nicotine.
- Detailed Description
Youth who use tobacco/nicotine products on school campuses are often detained, suspended, or expelled. Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension is an online curriculum that uses principles of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy, incorporating a restorative practice and trauma-informed lens.
The goals of the study are three-fold: (1) Assess changes in the perspectives of school administrators, educators, counselors, and health staff around the feasibility, acceptability, and usefulness of implementing Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension as an appropriate and effective response to tobacco use on campus (including versus suspension or expulsion); (2) Assess high school students' acceptability and perceptions of Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension; and (3) Estimate the extent to which Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension changes high school students' knowledge of, attitudes towards, intentions/susceptibility to use, and actual use of tobacco/nicotine products. The Stanford REACH Lab and California School-Based Health Alliance (CSHA) will partner to evaluate Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension using a school-based randomized waitlist-controlled trial in 20 high schools in California (n = 10 Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension treatment schools and 10 control schools).
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- NOT_YET_RECRUITING
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 2540
Not provided
Adolescents, aged 14-18 years, from grades 9-12 who do not speak English.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in tobacco/nicotine use Baseline, follow-up 1 (following intervention at one year), follow-up 2 (6 months post-intervention), follow-up 3 (6 months past follow-up 2), and follow-up 4 (6 months past follow-up 3) up to 2.5 years of the study. Investigator-originated survey measures (questions) ever tobacco/nicotine use and past 30-day tobacco/nicotine use. All students in both arms will be asked to complete a survey at baseline (just before treatment), follow-up 1 (immediately post-intervention), follow-up 2 (6 months after completing intervention), and so on every 6 months for 2.5 years of the study.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in intention of tobacco/nicotine use scale score Baseline, follow-up 1 (following intervention at one year), follow-up 2 (6 months post intervention), follow-up 3 (6 months past follow-up 2), and follow-up 4 (6 months past follow-up 3) up to 2.5 years of the study. Participants will self-report changes in their intention/susceptibility to use tobacco/nicotine products using a validated four-point scale in a survey. This survey measures changes in intention to use tobacco/nicotine with questions related to the participant's knowledge of and resistance to the use of tobacco/nicotine products.
Susceptibility is measured by the following questions:
1. Have you ever been curious about using an e-cigarette?
2. Do you think that you will try an e-cigarette soon?
3. If one of your best friends were to offer you an e-cigarette, would you use it?"
Response options for all three questions included a four-point scale: "Definitely yes," "Probably yes," "Probably not," and "Definitely not."
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
Stanford University
🇺🇸Palo Alto, California, United States