NCT00650585

An Effectiveness Trial of Project ALERT

Promising Programs for Substance Abuse Prevention: Replication and Evaluation Initiative

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 8,338 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to replicate a longitudinal evaluation of Project ALERT, a substance abuse prevention program that targets middle school students.

Detailed description

Project ALERT is a substance abuse prevention program that targets middle school students. The purposes of this evaluation are to test its immediate and one-year effectiveness in a randomized experimental design that will span a total of 2.5 years for each of two cohorts. The cohorts are spaced one year apart to reduce our implementation and data collection burdens at any one time. The design for the two cohorts is identical. In schools randomly assigned to the treatment group, instructors receive Project ALERT training and materials prior to beginning the program and have access to technical assistance on request. In schools randomly assigned to the control group, teachers implement whatever substance abuse prevention curricula they normally would (if any).

Conditions

• Alcohol Drinking
• Smoking
• Marijuana Smoking

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Project ALERT	Project ALERT (Adolescent Learning Experiences in Resistance Training) is a drug prevention curriculum designed for middle-school students (11 to 14 years old). The 11 lessons in the first year and 3 booster lessons in the second year focus on alcohol, tobacco, marijuana, and inhalants - the substances that adolescents are most likely to use. Project ALERT uses participatory activities and videos to help motivate youth to avoid drug use, to teach youth skills and strategies to resist peer pressures to use drugs, and to establish social norms against drug-use. More information about Project ALERT may be found at http://www.projectalert.best.org/.

Timeline

• Start date: 2004-05-01
• Primary completion: 2008-06-01
• Completion: 2008-06-01
• First posted: 2008-04-02
• Last updated: 2013-06-13
• Results posted: 2009-10-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States