NCT06483412

An Evaluation of the Tobacco Prevention Toolkit Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Vaping Intervention

Evaluation Tobacco Prevention Toolkit Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Vaping Intervention

• Status: Enrolling By Invitation
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 2,540 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Stanford University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Curriculum is a free, online curriculum developed to educate students and provide them with resources to quit tobacco/nicotine use. The investigation aims to estimate the extent to which Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension changes high school student's knowledge of, attitudes towards, intentions to use, and actual use of tobacco/nicotine.

Detailed description

Youth who use tobacco/nicotine products on school campuses are often detained, suspended, or expelled. Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension is an online curriculum that uses principles of motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioral therapy, incorporating a restorative practice and trauma-informed lens. The goals of the study are three-fold: (1) Assess changes in the perspectives of school administrators, educators, counselors, and health staff around the feasibility, acceptability, and usefulness of implementing Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension as an appropriate and effective response to tobacco use on campus (including versus suspension or expulsion); (2) Assess high school students' acceptability and perceptions of Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension; and (3) Estimate the extent to which Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension changes high school students' knowledge of, attitudes towards, intentions/susceptibility to use, and actual use of tobacco/nicotine products. The Stanford REACH Lab and California School-Based Health Alliance (CSHA) will partner to evaluate Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension using a school-based randomized waitlist-controlled trial in 20 high schools in California (n = 10 Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension treatment schools and 10 control schools).

Conditions

• Tobacco Use Cessation
• Addiction

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Curriculum	Healthy Futures: Alternative-to-Suspension Curriculum uses a trauma-informed and restorative practice lens and uses principles of motivational interviewing (MI) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help students understand the harms of nicotine, reduce stress, increase positive coping, and provide resources to quit.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-03-03
• Primary completion: 2027-08-01
• Completion: 2027-08-01
• First posted: 2024-07-03
• Last updated: 2025-12-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States