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LaunchPad: Supporting Healthy Decisions and Preventing Drug Use After High School
Sponsor: Prevention Strategies, LLC
Summary
LaunchPad is an online substance use prevention program for high school seniors. The program is designed to help seniors develop skills and make informed decisions as they transition from high school to young adulthood. The purpose of this clinical trial is to learn whether individual LaunchPad lessons improve the specific attitudes, intentions, and skills they are designed to address. For example, researchers will examine whether the stress management lesson increases students' intentions to use healthy ways of managing stress. The main question this study aims to answer is: Does each individual LaunchPad lesson improve the specific outcomes it was designed to address? Researchers will compare students who receive a particular lesson with students who do not receive that lesson to determine whether the lesson changes the intended outcome. Participants will: * Complete a brief baseline survey * Complete two introductory online lessons * Complete one or more randomly assigned LaunchPad lessons * Complete a brief follow-up survey All surveys and lessons will be completed online.
Official title: Preventing Drug Use Onset and Progression Toward Addiction During a Critical Transition Period: Optimizing an Online Intervention for High School Seniors
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
15 Years - 21 Years
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
5000
Start Date
2026-09-01
Completion Date
2029-04-30
Last Updated
2026-06-25
Healthy Volunteers
Yes
Interventions
Introduction
Discusses choices and challenges students face as they transition out of high school to promote participant buy-in. Explains the consequences of SU, focusing on how these consequences can interfere with their life plans.
Norms re: Protective Behavior Strategies (PBS)
Provides messages from young adults that reveal positive attitudes (i.e., high injunctive norms) about using protective strategies to limit exposure to risky situations and behaviors. Messages will also emphasize low approval toward negative consequences of SU to motivate the need for PBS use.
Life Skills
Teaches social and decision-making skills such as SU refusal skills and strategies for coping with stress and anxiety.
Norms re: Bystander Intervention Strategies
Provides normative feedback about intervening on behalf of peers and teaches strategies to intervene on behalf of peers.
Making Friends
Teaches strategies to make friends without SU.
Norms about Substance Use
Corrects misperceptions about prevalence of SU among young adults and young adults' approval of SU.