"Effectiveness of School-based Substance Abuse Prevention Programme Among Adolescents .

NCT ID: NCT06004726

Last Updated: 2024-03-19

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

RECRUITING

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

210 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2024-05-01

Study Completion Date

2027-07-01

Brief Summary

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The objectives of the study is to

1. "to explore the perception of teachers, parents \& students in the prevention of substance abuse among adolescents".
2. "to develop and determine the effectiveness of a School-based substance abuse Prevention Programme (SSPP) on awareness, attitude, peer pressure, and life skills towards prevention of substance abuse".

In this study, SSPP refers to a Bilingual Multicomponent Training Programme which includes psychoeducation and video-assisted teaching to enhance awareness of substance abuse, role-play to develop a positive attitude towards prevention of substance abuse, Case based scenario to increase resistance to peer pressure and storytelling and demonstration to increase life skills towards prevention of substance abuse among adolescents of selected schools of Pokhara, Nepal.

Detailed Description

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DETAILED METHODOLOGY

Phase I:

* Research Design: Qualitative
* Research Setting: Selected public schools of Pokhara, Nepal
* Population: Teachers, Parents, and Students of Pokhara, Nepal
* Samples: Selected Teachers, Parents \& students
* Sample Size: 38 (The sample will be collected till data Saturation)
* Data collection Technique: Focus group discussion
* Data collection Tool: Focus group lead questions
* Data Analysis: Thematic analysis (Atlas.ti) Phase II Research design: Cluster Randomized Trial Randomization method: Cluster Randomization Research Setting: Selected public schools of Pokhara, Nepal Population: Adolescent students of Pokhara, Nepal Sample: Selected Adolescents, who are in the age group 13-15 years old and studying in 8th \& 9th grades Variables
* Independent variables: School-based Substance abuse Prevention Programme (SSPP)
* Dependent variables: awareness, attitudes, peer pressure, and life skills related to prevention of substance abuse.
* Demographic variables: age in years, gender, religion, education/grade, family type, residence, number of siblings, education of parents, occupation of parents, sources of information, history of substance abuse in the family.

Sample size: 210

The expected outcomes of the study is to enhance awareness towards prevention of substance abuse,develop a positive attitude towards the prevention of substance abuse,develop drug refusal skills among adolescents,improve life skills and helps in th reduction of drug abuse behaviour adolescents

Conditions

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Substance Abuse

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Experimental and control

Experimental group will get 4 module of intervention

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

School-based Substance abuse Prevention Programme (SSPP)

Intervention Type OTHER

Module 1 :Introduction

* Orientation about Training Programme using PowerPoint slides
* Psychoeducation and Video Assisted Teaching to enhance awareness of substance abuse.
* Distribution of informational booklet on basics about substance abuse

Module 2:

* Role play to develop a positive attitude towards the prevention of substance abuse.
* Case-based scenario to increase resistance to peer pressure.
* Demonstration of drug refusal techniques.

Module3:• Storytelling on Life skills Training Components (Problem solving, Emotion Management)

Module 4:• Demonstration of Life skills training components (Communication skills, Decision making skills, Creative thinking skills, Stress Management strategies )

Control

control group will not get intervention ,Information Booklet and video assisted teaching will be given after posttest

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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School-based Substance abuse Prevention Programme (SSPP)

Module 1 :Introduction

* Orientation about Training Programme using PowerPoint slides
* Psychoeducation and Video Assisted Teaching to enhance awareness of substance abuse.
* Distribution of informational booklet on basics about substance abuse

Module 2:

* Role play to develop a positive attitude towards the prevention of substance abuse.
* Case-based scenario to increase resistance to peer pressure.
* Demonstration of drug refusal techniques.

Module3:• Storytelling on Life skills Training Components (Problem solving, Emotion Management)

Module 4:• Demonstration of Life skills training components (Communication skills, Decision making skills, Creative thinking skills, Stress Management strategies )

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adolescents of 13-15 years age group.
* Those who are studying in selected public Schools of Pokhara, Nepal.

Exclusion Criteria

* o Adolescents who are not willing to provide informed consent (assent) and parental consent.

* Adolescents who do not belong to Nepal.
* Adolescents who are absent during data collection
Minimum Eligible Age

13 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

15 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Manipal University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Manipal College of Nursing

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sandhya Shrestha

Principal investigator (phD Scholar)

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Sandhya Shrestha

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Manipal

Locations

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Sandhya Shrestha

Pokhara, Gandaki, Nepal

Site Status ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Bal mandir Mavi and Bindobasini Ma vi

Pokhara, Gandaki, Nepal

Site Status RECRUITING

Sandhya shrestha

Pokhara, Gandaki, Nepal

Site Status NOT_YET_RECRUITING

Countries

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Nepal

Central Contacts

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Sandhya shrestha

Role: CONTACT

9779846038525

Binil V

Role: CONTACT

9844387432

Facility Contacts

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sandhya shrestha, master

Role: primary

9846038525

binil v, phD

Role: backup

9844387432

Binil V

Role: primary

91 -9844387432

Shashidhara YN

Role: backup

91-9886344627

Other Identifiers

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220500003

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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