Testing ALERT With GTO in Middle Schools (GTO-ALERT)

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Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Project ALERT; Behavioral: Getting to Outcomes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05219422

2020-0121-AM01

Details and patient eligibility

About

To test the efficacy of Project ALERT with the support enhancement tool, Getting To Outcomes.

Full description

This study combines two programs that have been developed by RAND researchers: Project ALERT (PA) and Getting to Outcomes (GTO). Project ALERT is a widely used drug prevention program for middle school youth. Though it has an evidence-base for effectiveness, the program (like most evidence-based programs in schools) is not run with adequate fidelity representing a large gap between what is developed and tested for effectiveness and what is used in actual practice. Thus, the study will conduct an updated randomized controlled trial of PA and test GTO as a tool to increase adoption and adequate fidelity of the program in schools. GTO's previous evidence suggests it could be effective in public schools, yet this remains an empirical question. A successful demonstration of PA and GTO could fundamentally transform evidence-based prevention's delivery, reach, and thus impact, in the US.

Enrollment: 42 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligibility for student participants: all students in 7th grade, primarily aged 12-14, attending school at one of the enrolled schools in the study.
• Eligibility for school staff participants: all educators interested in enrolling in the study at each of the enrolled schools.

Exclusion criteria

• Not meeting eligibility criteria

Note: the age range is from 11 to 70 to account for both the student AND teacher populations.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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42 participants in 3 patient groups

Project ALERT only

Active Comparator group

Description:

Some schools will be randomized to receive Project ALERT only for 3 years starting fall 2022.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Project ALERT

Project ALERT plus GTO

Active Comparator group

Description:

Some schools will be randomized to receive Project ALERT plus Getting to Outcomes for 3 years starting fall 2022.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Getting to Outcomes

Behavioral: Project ALERT

Status quo

No Intervention group

Description:

Some schools not receive either Project ALERT or Project ALERT plus GTO until year 3 of the study.