Smart Talk: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Curriculum Evaluation

Stanford University

Status: Begins enrollment in 5 months

Conditions: Cannabis Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Behavioral: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT07357454

80402

1R01DA060900-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Stanford REACH Lab's SMART TALK: Cannabis Awareness and Prevention Toolkit is a free, online educational resource to be used by educators to increase knowledge and awareness of cannabis and reduce use among youth. The aim of this study is to investigate the extent to which the curriculum changes middle and high school students' intentions to use and actual use of cannabis.

Full description

Smart Talk includes 5 lessons, each providing activities, online quiz games, and worksheets in addition to presentations, resources, and other materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth cannabis use, including changing adolescents' attitudes towards and misperceptions about cannabis; increasing their refusal skills to pulls of marketing and social media; reducing stress and depression which have been linked to cannabis initiation and use; improving coping skills; and decreasing intentions and actual use of all cannabis products.

Enrollment: 10,800 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 20 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Middle school and high school students receiving health education at schools participating in the study

Exclusion criteria

-

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10,800 participants in 2 patient groups

Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention

Experimental group

Description:

At the start of Year 2, schools will be randomized in a 1:1 ratio to either receive 'Stanford REACH Lab's Smart Talk: Cannabis Prevention and Awareness' curriculum or 'delay-in-treatment (standard of care)'. Students in these schools will receive the Stanford curriculum designed as a 5-session course administered in a school class-room setting.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention

Delay in Treatment Group

Experimental group

Description:

At the start of Year 2, schools randomized to the delay-in-treatment group will receive a standard of care for one year. After year 2, the delay-in-treatment group will crossover to receive 'Stanford REACH Lab's Healthy Futures: Cannabis Prevention and Awareness until year 5 (receive intervention for years 2 to 4).

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral: Smart Talk Cannabis Awareness and Prevention