Pilot and Feasibility Testing of a Peer-led Program to Prevent Youth Nicotine Vaping: The YES-CAN! Program
University of Colorado, Denver
Summary
The goal of this pilot study is to determine the feasibility of a randomized trial of the YES-CAN! (Youth Engaged Strategies to Change Adolescent Norms) program to prevent nicotine vaping among adolescents. The program integrates the following evidence-based strategies: youth-adult collaboration; youth-developed narrative videos to convey health messages; peer leaders as change agents; and sustained implementation to change the normative environment. Two middle/high school communities will receive the YES-CAN! intervention. In each school community, a trained teacher will deliver a credit-earning middle or high school class to 25-30 middle or high school students, who will produce 6-8 short videos intended to increase refusal skills; promote stress management and positive coping; change social norms; prevent vaping initiation; and promote vaping cessation among current users. Videos will use a narrative approach and integrate known determinants of vaping. Middle or high school students will collaborate with the teacher and researchers to develop discussion guides and skills-building activities based on best practices for substance use prevention. In 6-8 sessions, middle or high school students will deliver their videos to all students in the associated middle school. A text messaging or other media component will reinforce and boost the effectiveness of the classroom sessions. Aims for this pilot/feasibility study are: 1. To determine the feasibility and acceptability of implementing the YES-CAN! program 2. To determine the feasibility and acceptability of the research protocols that will be used in a future efficacy trial
Description
This is a pilot/feasibility study of a school-based intervention in which middle and/or high school students develop and deliver a video-narrative-based intervention to middle school students in their school community. To provide evidence of feasibility for the purposes of planning for a large cluster-randomized trial, the investigators will implement the intervention and data collection protocols in two school communities within which students will be followed longitudinally. These school communities are middle schools and/or middle and high school pairs, where each middle school is one of th…
Eligibility
- Age range
- 9+ years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria: * Children enrolled in middle school grades 6-8 and high school grades 9-12 (age approximately 10-13 and 14-17); adults (over age 18) involved in educational system Exclusion Criteria: * Not able to read and write in English or Spanish
Interventions
- BehavioralYES-CAN! program
Youth Engaged Strategies to Change Adolescent Norms
Location
- University of Colorado Anschutz Medical CampusAurora, Colorado