This proposal is a response to RFA 00-004, """"""""The Next Generation of Drug Abuse Prevention Research."""""""" We propose to examine the relative importance of the two theoretical content components of the school-based Project Towards No Drug Abuse (TND) curricula in effecting drug abuse prevention effects on tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and hard drug use (cognitive perception versus behavioral skills, versus their combination). Project TND is an empirically validated indicated drug abuse prevention program, which has shown positive one-year outcomes over three experimental replication trials. Instruction will be provided by both experienced project staff health educators and school teachers recently trained in the program as a means of examining implementer characteristics. The impact of the program content and implementer characteristics will be examined in two cohorts of youth varying in contextually defined risk, in a randomized experimental design. Project and school staff-delivered classroom programs will be implemented in 12 high schools and compared to 4 standard care (control) condition schools, in a seven-condition randomized design replicated across two school contexts (traditional and alternative high schools, 32 schools total). We will assess student drug use behavior at baseline (pretest), post program (immediate post-test), and 1-year follow-up. We will apply a series of sophisticated models to analyze the collected data for potential experimental, mediational and moderational effects as specified by hypotheses generated from the underlying theoretical base.

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Type
Research Project (R01)
Project #
1R01DA013814-01
Application #
6292095
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZDA1-WXG-F (18))
Program Officer
Reider, Eve
Project Start
2000-09-15
Project End
2004-08-31
Budget Start
2000-09-15
Budget End
2001-08-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2000
Total Cost
$408,126
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Southern California
Department
Public Health & Prev Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
041544081
City
Los Angeles
State
CA
Country
United States
Zip Code
90089
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Sussman, Steve; Black, David S; Rohrbach, Louise A (2010) A concise history of school-based smoking prevention research: a pendulum effect case study. J Drug Educ 40:217-26
Lisha, Nadra E; Sussman, Steve (2010) Relationship of high school and college sports participation with alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use: a review. Addict Behav 35:399-407
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