A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students

Background: Incorrect perceptions of high rates of peer alcohol and tobacco use are predictive of increased personal use in student populations. Correcting misperceptions by providing feedback has been shown to be an effective intervention for reducing licit drug use. It is currently unknown if soci...

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Autores: Pischke, Claudia R., Zeeb, Hajo, Hal, Guido van, Vriesacker, Bart, McAlaney, John, Bewick, Bridgette M., Akvardar, Yildiz, Guillén Grima, Francisco, Orosova, Olga, Salonna, Ferdinand, Kalina, Ondrej, Stock, Christiane, Helmer, Stefanie M., Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:España
Institución:Universidad Pública de Navarra
Repositorio:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarra
OAI Identifier:oai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/18330
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2454/18330
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Social norms
Prevention
Drug use
Intervention
University students
College students
Europe
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spelling A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college studentsPischke, Claudia R.Zeeb, HajoHal, Guido vanVriesacker, BartMcAlaney, JohnBewick, Bridgette M.Akvardar, YildizGuillén Grima, FranciscoOrosova, OlgaSalonna, FerdinandKalina, OndrejStock, ChristianeHelmer, Stefanie M.Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.Social normsPreventionDrug useInterventionUniversity studentsCollege studentsEuropeBackground: Incorrect perceptions of high rates of peer alcohol and tobacco use are predictive of increased personal use in student populations. Correcting misperceptions by providing feedback has been shown to be an effective intervention for reducing licit drug use. It is currently unknown if social norms interventions are effective in preventing and reducing illicit drug use in European students. The purpose of this paper is to describe the design of a multi-site cluster controlled trial of a web-based social norms intervention aimed at reducing licit and preventing illicit drug use in European university students. Methods/Design: An online questionnaire to assess rates of drug use will be developed and translated based on existing social norms surveys. Students from sixteen universities in seven participating European countries will be invited to complete the questionnaire. Both intervention and control sites will be chosen by convenience. In each country, the intervention site will be the university that the local principal investigator is affiliated with. We aim to recruit 1000 students per site (baseline assessment). All participants will complete the online questionnaire at baseline. Baseline data will be used to develop social norms messages that will be included in a web-based intervention. The intervention group will receive individualized social norms feedback. The website will remain online during the following 5 months. After five months, a second survey will be conducted and effects of the intervention on social norms and drug use will be measured in comparison to the control site. Discussion: This project is the first cross-national European collaboration to investigate the feasibility of a social norms intervention to reduce licit and prevent illicit drug use among European university students. Final trial registration number DRKS00004375 on the ‘German Clinical Trials Register’.This study is funded by the European Commission, Directorate General Justice, Freedom and Security (JLS/2009-2010/DPIP/AG)BioMed CentralCiencias de la SaludOsasun Zientziak2012info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/2454/18330reponame:Academica-e. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad Pública de Navarrainstname:Universidad Pública de NavarraInglés© 2012 Pischke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:academica-e.unavarra.es:2454/183302026-06-17T12:41:47Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
title A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
spellingShingle A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
Pischke, Claudia R.
Social norms
Prevention
Drug use
Intervention
University students
College students
Europe
title_short A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
title_full A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
title_fullStr A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
title_full_unstemmed A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
title_sort A feasibility trial to examine the social norms approach for the prevention and reduction of licit and illicit drug use in European University and college students
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Pischke, Claudia R.
Zeeb, Hajo
Hal, Guido van
Vriesacker, Bart
McAlaney, John
Bewick, Bridgette M.
Akvardar, Yildiz
Guillén Grima, Francisco
Orosova, Olga
Salonna, Ferdinand
Kalina, Ondrej
Stock, Christiane
Helmer, Stefanie M.
Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.
author Pischke, Claudia R.
author_facet Pischke, Claudia R.
Zeeb, Hajo
Hal, Guido van
Vriesacker, Bart
McAlaney, John
Bewick, Bridgette M.
Akvardar, Yildiz
Guillén Grima, Francisco
Orosova, Olga
Salonna, Ferdinand
Kalina, Ondrej
Stock, Christiane
Helmer, Stefanie M.
Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.
author_role author
author2 Zeeb, Hajo
Hal, Guido van
Vriesacker, Bart
McAlaney, John
Bewick, Bridgette M.
Akvardar, Yildiz
Guillén Grima, Francisco
Orosova, Olga
Salonna, Ferdinand
Kalina, Ondrej
Stock, Christiane
Helmer, Stefanie M.
Mikolajczyk, Rafael T.
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
author
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author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias de la Salud
Osasun Zientziak
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Social norms
Prevention
Drug use
Intervention
University students
College students
Europe
topic Social norms
Prevention
Drug use
Intervention
University students
College students
Europe
description Background: Incorrect perceptions of high rates of peer alcohol and tobacco use are predictive of increased personal use in student populations. Correcting misperceptions by providing feedback has been shown to be an effective intervention for reducing licit drug use. It is currently unknown if social norms interventions are effective in preventing and reducing illicit drug use in European students. The purpose of this paper is to describe the design of a multi-site cluster controlled trial of a web-based social norms intervention aimed at reducing licit and preventing illicit drug use in European university students. Methods/Design: An online questionnaire to assess rates of drug use will be developed and translated based on existing social norms surveys. Students from sixteen universities in seven participating European countries will be invited to complete the questionnaire. Both intervention and control sites will be chosen by convenience. In each country, the intervention site will be the university that the local principal investigator is affiliated with. We aim to recruit 1000 students per site (baseline assessment). All participants will complete the online questionnaire at baseline. Baseline data will be used to develop social norms messages that will be included in a web-based intervention. The intervention group will receive individualized social norms feedback. The website will remain online during the following 5 months. After five months, a second survey will be conducted and effects of the intervention on social norms and drug use will be measured in comparison to the control site. Discussion: This project is the first cross-national European collaboration to investigate the feasibility of a social norms intervention to reduce licit and prevent illicit drug use among European university students. Final trial registration number DRKS00004375 on the ‘German Clinical Trials Register’.
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