为经常使用大麻的新兴成年人提供移动健康干预:微随机试验试验设计协议
Lara N Coughlin1, Maya Campbell2, Tiffany Wheeler2
1Addiction Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; Michigan Innovations in Addiction Care through Research and Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Contemporary clinical trials
|August 19, 2024
概括
这项试点研究测试了针对新兴成年大麻使用者的移动应用程序干预措施. 该应用程序使用自适应消息来减少大麻使用和相关的危害.
科学领域:
- 数字健康干预措施 数字健康干预措施
- 移动健康 (mHealth) 服务提供商
- 行为科学是一种行为科学.
背景情况:
- 新兴成年人 (EA) 大麻使用对健康构成重大风险.
- 恰到好处的适应性干预 (JITAI) 显示出防止大麻使用升级的前景.
- 目前对JITAI的mHealth研究有限,需要对最佳内容交付进行进一步调查.
研究的目的:
- 试点进行微随机试验,以优化MiWaves移动干预应用程序.
- 评估MiWaves应用程序对于经常使用大麻的新兴成年人 (18-25岁) 的可行性和可接受性.
- 探索mHealth JITAI在减少大麻使用和相关危害方面的潜力.
主要方法:
- 一项试点研究协议,用于一项微型随机试验,涉及120名定期使用大麻的新兴成年人 (18-25岁).
- 使用强化学习算法进行自适应微随机化,以优化干预交付.
- 在30天内每天两次进行应用内调查和微随机消息 (长度和交互类型各不相同).
主要成果:
- 研究方案的重点是评估可行性和可接受性作为主要结果.
- 与大麻使用相关的探索性行为结果也将被调查.
- 数据收集包括查,基线,每周,干预后和2个月后续评估.
结论:
- 这项试点研究是为新兴成年人开发有效的移动健康干预措施的基本步骤.
- 这些发现将为开发优化的JITAI提供信息,以减少大麻使用和危害.
- 进一步的研究对于完善物质使用预防的移动健康战略至关重要.
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