MATAspire Web-app
BehavioralSubstance misuse prevention education and adaptive coping skills
NCT Number: NCT06553196
The MATAspire intervention is a web-app designed to promote substance misuse prevention education and bolster protective coping skills whereby students complete six weekly interactive modules using a smart device or computer. Each module is approximately 15-20 minutes long and focuses on select substances and coping strategies: (i) adaptive coping strategies, (ii) alcohol, (iii) cannabis, (iv) nicotine, (v) prescription drugs and opioids, (vi) final module. The modules are based on key theoretical constructs, behavior change strategies, and practical module components: attitudes (knowledge), perceived susceptibility (risk perceptions), and subjective norms (normative re-education). The intervention will be evaluated via a time series design using a sample of (~1000 students) randomly assigned to either the intervention or the control conditions at a public institution in Southern California.
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All sexes
Interventional
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Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes
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Substance misuse prevention education and adaptive coping skills
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the number of days drinking alcohol in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the number of days consumed five or more alcoholic beverages at the same time for males; four or more for females in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the number of days smoking, vaping, dabbing, oral (edibles/gummies/drinks), sprays, tinctures, and topically in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the number of days using menthol cigarettes, regular cigarettes, loose tobacco rolled into cigarettes or cigars, pipe tobacco, snuff, chewing tobacco, dipping tobacco, snus, and others in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention
Measured as the number of days using vaporizers, vape pens, hookah pens, electronic cigarettes, e-pens, or electronic nicotine delivery systems in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the number of days used stimulants, sedatives, benzodiazepines, and prescription opioids in past 30-days
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as the degree of effective and ineffective ways to cope with a stressful life event in ...
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as participants who report any past 30-day alcohol use indicate how many times they have experienced select outcomes in the last 30 days while drinking alcohol, or as a result of their alcohol use
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as participants who report any past 30-day nicotine use indicate how many times they have experienced ten select outcomes in the last 30 days while using nicotine, or as a result of their nicotine use.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as participants who report any past 30-day cannabis use indicate how many times they have experienced ten select outcomes in the last 30 days while using cannabis, or as a result of their cannabis use
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following completion of intervention
Measured as participants who report any past 30-day non-prescribed prescription drug use indicate how many times they have experienced ten select outcomes in the last 30 days while using prescription drugs not prescribed to them, or for the purpose of feeling or experiencing something
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured by participants' evaluation of their perceived risk level for the following substance use behaviors: nicotine use once or twice a week, binge drinking daily, binge drinking once or twice a week, cannabis or marijuana use once or twice a week, electronic vape products once or twice a week, opioid drugs once or twice a week, non-prescribed prescription drugs once or twice a week. Response options for each behavior include 1='no risk', 2='slight risk', 3='moderate risk', 4='great risk'.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured by participants' indication of what percentage of students on campus they perceive use a variety of substances within the last 30 days (i.e. alcohol, cannabis, tobacco or nicotine delivery products, prescription stimulants, sedatives or sleeping pills, prescription opioids, and hallucinogens) choosing one of ten percentile intervals from 0-100%.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured by participants' attitude or feeling towards using mental health and substance use services on campus. Responses range from agree to disagree.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured by participants' indication of number of days of exercise in past week exercising. Examples of exercise are 'going to the gym', 'running', 'swimming', 'hiking', 'lifting weights or toning muscles', 'going for a brisk walk', or 'dancing', etc.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as participants' report of average number of hours of sleep on a weeknight, excluding naps, over the past. Response options are 'less than 4 hours', '4 hours', '5 hours', '6 hours', '7 hours', '8 hours', '9 hours', '10 hours or more', or prefer not to answer.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
Measured as participants' report of past week average number of servings of fruit and average number of servings of vegetables consumed.
Time frame: Baseline
Participant characteristics, including age, Hispanic origin, race, sex at birth, gender identification, sexual orientation, living situation, college status, military service/veteran status, arrest history, parole/probation status, and household income
Time frame: Baseline
ACE are conceptualized as maltreatment (e.g., verbal, emotional, physical, and sexual abuse), and household dysfunction (e.g., parent/caregiver substance use, intimate partner violence, incarceration, homelessness, mental illness, separation/divorce. Participants respond to each of the ten ACE items as 1=Yes or 0=No. An ACE score will be computed with a range from 0-10.
Time frame: Baseline
Participants respond 1=Yes or 0=No to a list of 18 major life events within the last three years. Example life events include: getting into a new romantic relationship; breaking up with a girlfriend or boyfriend; losing a job; being unemployed and not able to find work; caring for a parent or relative; getting extremely ill; having a baby; losing a baby; or having family separated due to immigration. A total score will be computed with a range from 0-18.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item (GAD-7) is a screening tool for generalized anxiety disorder. This is calculated by assigning scores of 0, 1, 2, and 3 to the response categories below, respectively, of "not at all," "several days," "more than half the days," and "nearly every day." GAD-7 total score for the seven items ranges from 0 to 21. Higher scores indicate more anxiety.
Participants' will indicate how often they felt they were/had 'nervous anxious or on edge', 'not able to stop or control worrying', 'worrying too much about different things', 'trouble relaxing', 'being so restless it was hard to sit still', 'become easily annoyed or irritable', over the past 2 weeks.
Time frame: Baseline and 90-days following intervention completion
The Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression (CES-D)10-item scale assesses depressive symptoms in the past week. Participants will indicate how often (rarely=0, some/little=1, occasionally=2, most of the time=3) they felt 'bothered by things that usually don't bother me', 'they had trouble keeping their mind on what they were doing', 'depressed', 'everything was an effort', 'hopeful about the future', 'fearful', 'sleep was restless', 'happy', 'lonely', 'they could not get going' in last week.
Items 5 and 8 are reverse coded. The total score is calculated by totaling all items scored after reversing the positive mood items. Possible range for scores is 0-30 with higher scores representing greater degrees of depressed mood.
Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.
Bethany Rainisch, PhD, MPH
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Linn Dahlman, MPhil
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California State University, Northridge
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Acronym: MATAspire
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