Healthy Schools, Healthy Futures: a randomised controlled trial to assess the efficacy of a school-based resilience intervention to decrease tobacco and alcohol use in secondary school students

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Adolescent tobacco use; Adolescent alcohol use; Adolescent mental health; Public Health - Health promotion/education; Mental Health - Studies of normal psychology, cognitive function and behaviour

• Registration Number: ACTRN12611000606987
• Lead Sponsor: The University of Newcastle

Brief Summary

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Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2011-06-14
• Study Completion: 2014-12-06
• Last Update Posted: 9 September 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 10092

Inclusion Criteria

Schools:
- located in a disadvantaged area (defined by the SEIFA Index of Relative Socio-Economic Advantage/Disadvantage)
- located within the HNE Area Health Service region
- > 400 enrolments
- enrolments in Years 7-10
- co-educational

Children:
- all children in Years 7-10 in participating schools

Exclusion Criteria

Schools:
The following types of schools will be excluded from the trial given their characteristics and the likelihood of a differential effects in these schools:
- fully special needs schools
- central schools (schools with enrolments from Kindergarten to Year 10/12)
- fully selective schools
- boarding schools
- schools already implementing a comprehensive resilience intervention

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Tobacco use measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Alcohol use measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Primary outcome 3: Mental health measured by the youth self-report version of the Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ).<br>[ Timepoint: at baseline (2001) and at the end of the intervention period (2014).<br>]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Resilience factors score measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Marijuana use measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Other drug use measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Physical activity level measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Consumption of fruit measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Consumption of vegetables measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)];Sexual activity measured by adolescent self report[ At baseline (2011) and at the end of the intervention period (2014)]