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Personalized Feedback Intervention to Reduce Risky Cannabis Use.

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Cannabis Use
Interventions
Behavioral: Personalized Feedback
Behavioral: Education
Registration Number
NCT04060602
Lead Sponsor
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to determine whether participants who receive a personalized feedback report and educational materials about risky cannabis use will be less likely to report risky cannabis use at follow-up compared to participants who only received educational materials.

Detailed Description

This project aims to reduce risky cannabis use among those with less severe cannabis use, most of whom will never seek formal treatment. All of the participants will receive educational material regarding risky cannabis use and its prevention. Half of the participants will also be assigned by chance to receive a personalized feedback report.

The investigators hypothesize that:

1. Participants who receive the full personalized feedback intervention will be less likely to report risky cannabis use at 3- and 6-month follow-ups compared to participants who receive educational materials only (Primary Hypothesis).

2. Participants who receive the full personalized feedback intervention will report greater reductions in their perceptions of how much others use cannabis at a 3-month follow-up compared to participants who receive educational materials only.

3. Reductions in perceptions of how much others use cannabis at 3-month follow-up will be positively associated with reduction in the participant's risky cannabis use at 6-month follow-up.

A 2-arm parallel group randomized controlled trial will be conducted to test these hypotheses with follow-ups occurring at 3 and 6 months after randomization. Online media advertisements will be used to recruit people currently using cannabis. The advertisements will be placed across Canada using locations found successful in previous trials to rapidly recruit participants (e.g. Google AdWords).

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
747
Inclusion Criteria
  • Score of 4 or more on the Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test, Cannabis subscale (ASSIST)
Exclusion Criteria
  • Being under 18 years of age

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Personalized Feedback and EducationPersonalized FeedbackThis arm is provided personalized feedback concerning their cannabis use in addition to educational materials about risky cannabis use.
Personalized Feedback and EducationEducationThis arm is provided personalized feedback concerning their cannabis use in addition to educational materials about risky cannabis use.
EducationEducationThis arm is provided educational materials about risky cannabis use.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Cannabis Use in the last 30 days3 and 6 months

Change in the number of days participant used cannabis in the past 30-days from baseline

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST, cannabis subscale)Baseline, 3 and 6 months

Change in cannabis subscale scores from baseline. Scores are calculated as a sum of six items and totals can range from 0 to 39 with higher scores indicating greater risk.

Perceptions of Cannabis Use by Peers in the past 3 monthsBaseline, 3 months

Change in participant's perceptions of how much their peers (same age and gender) use cannabis. Measured as a percentage of peers that do not use cannabis (%) and a 5-points Likert scale, 0 "Never" to 5 "Daily or Almost daily" of frequency of peer use

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Centre for Addiction Mental Health

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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