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The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Substance use is among the main contributors to disease among children and adolescents in the Americas region. The call for effective prevention of substance use among adolescents has resulted in numerous school-based programs, and particularly the Unplugged program has been proved to be...
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author | Gaete, Jorge Ramírez, Saray Gana, Sofía Valenzuela, Daniela Araya, Ricardo |
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description | BACKGROUND: Substance use is among the main contributors to disease among children and adolescents in the Americas region. The call for effective prevention of substance use among adolescents has resulted in numerous school-based programs, and particularly the Unplugged program has been proved to be successful in reducing the prevalence of different substances in seven European countries. The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of the Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”). METHODS: This is a cluster randomized controlled trial, parallel-group type, where “Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero” is compared to standard school preventive curricula in control schools. A total of 70 schools and 8400 adolescents are expected to be randomized with 1:1 allocation. During formative work, the Unplugged program was culturally adapted to Chile, and the instrument to assess the primary and secondary outcomes was validated. The effectiveness of this program will be assessed using the European Drug Addiction Prevention Trial Questionnaire (EU-Dap), measuring substance use prevalence and risk and protective factors in baseline, post-intervention, and four months after the end of the intervention. DISCUSSION: The proposed study will be the first to test the effectiveness of a school-based substance use prevention program in Chile in a cluster randomized control trial and the first study evaluating the Unplugged program in Spanish-speaking Latin America. A model for disseminating the Unplugged program inside Europe already exists and has been implemented successfully in several countries. Thus, if the effects of the program are positive, wide implementation in Chile and Latin American countries is possible soon. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.govNCT04236999. Registered on January 17, 2020. |
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spelling | pubmed-87874442022-01-25 The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Gaete, Jorge Ramírez, Saray Gana, Sofía Valenzuela, Daniela Araya, Ricardo Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Substance use is among the main contributors to disease among children and adolescents in the Americas region. The call for effective prevention of substance use among adolescents has resulted in numerous school-based programs, and particularly the Unplugged program has been proved to be successful in reducing the prevalence of different substances in seven European countries. The purpose of this study is to test the effectiveness of the Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”). METHODS: This is a cluster randomized controlled trial, parallel-group type, where “Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero” is compared to standard school preventive curricula in control schools. A total of 70 schools and 8400 adolescents are expected to be randomized with 1:1 allocation. During formative work, the Unplugged program was culturally adapted to Chile, and the instrument to assess the primary and secondary outcomes was validated. The effectiveness of this program will be assessed using the European Drug Addiction Prevention Trial Questionnaire (EU-Dap), measuring substance use prevalence and risk and protective factors in baseline, post-intervention, and four months after the end of the intervention. DISCUSSION: The proposed study will be the first to test the effectiveness of a school-based substance use prevention program in Chile in a cluster randomized control trial and the first study evaluating the Unplugged program in Spanish-speaking Latin America. A model for disseminating the Unplugged program inside Europe already exists and has been implemented successfully in several countries. Thus, if the effects of the program are positive, wide implementation in Chile and Latin American countries is possible soon. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.govNCT04236999. Registered on January 17, 2020. BioMed Central 2022-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8787444/ /pubmed/35078522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05904-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Gaete, Jorge Ramírez, Saray Gana, Sofía Valenzuela, Daniela Araya, Ricardo The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title | The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | The Unplugged program in Chile (“Yo Sé Lo Que Quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | unplugged program in chile (“yo sé lo que quiero”) for substance use prevention among early adolescents: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35078522 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05904-3 |
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