Trial reportBMC psychiatry2012
The CAP study, evaluation of integrated universal and selective prevention strategies for youth alcohol misuse: study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in BMC psychiatry, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 74 citations in OpenAlex.
- Universal school-based prevention for illicit drug use.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2014Pooled it
- Adolescent behavioural intentions: Secondary outcomes from a cluster randomized controlled trial of the Health4Life school-based lifestyle modification intervention.Canadian journal of public health = Revue canadienne de sante publique · 2025Trial
- Potential Mediators of a School-Based Digital Intervention Targeting Six Lifestyle Risk Behaviours in a Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial of Australian Adolescents.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Trial
- Effect of Selective Personality-Targeted Alcohol Use Prevention on 7-Year Alcohol-Related Outcomes Among High-risk Adolescents: A Secondary Analysis of a Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2022Trial
- Selective personality-targeted prevention of suicidal ideation in young adolescents: post hoc analysis of data collected in a cluster randomised controlled trial.The Medical journal of Australia · 2022Trial
- Universal cannabis outcomes from the Climate and Preventure (CAP) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2018Trial
- Pathways to prevention: protocol for the CAP (Climate and Preventure) study to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of school-based universal, selective and combined alcohol misuse prevention into early adulthood.BMC public health · 2018Trial
- A cluster randomised controlled trial of the Climate Schools: Ecstasy and Emerging Drugs Module in Australian secondary schools: study protocol.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- A narrative review of school-based preventive interventions on mental disorders and addictions.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Alcohol Misuse: Integrating Personality Traits and Decision-Making Styles for Profiling.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Hierarchical Model of the Symptom-Level Structure of Psychopathology in Youth.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2025Article
- Moderating effects of socioeconomic status and geographical location on the Health4Life school-based intervention.Preventive medicine reports · 2024Article
- Diverging trends in alcohol use and mental health in Australian adolescents: A cross-cohort comparison of trends in co-occurrence.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- 24-month outcomes of an eHealth universal program for students and parents to prevent adolescent alcohol use: A cluster randomized controlled trial in schools.Internet interventions · 2023Article
- Personality as a Possible Intervention Target to Prevent Traumatic Events in Adolescence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Web-Based Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Program (Strong & Deadly Futures) for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander School Students: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- A Mobile Peer Intervention for Preventing Mental Health and Substance Use Problems in Adolescents: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial (The Mind Your Mate Study).JMIR research protocols · 2021Article
- It's the Content That Counts: Longitudinal Associations between Social Media Use, Parental Monitoring, and Alcohol Use in an Australian Sample of Adolescents Aged 13 to 16 Years.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Is Adolescent Alcohol Use Linked to Spikes in Aggressive Behaviour? A Growth Curve Analysis.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Article
- The school-ledPreventive medicine reports · 2021Article
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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundAlcohol misuse amongst young people is a serious concern. The need for effective prevention is clear, yet there appear to be few evidenced-based programs that prevent alcohol misuse and none that target both high and low-risk youth. The CAP study addresses this gap by evaluating the efficacy of an integrated approach to alcohol misuse prevention, which combines the effective universal internet-based Climate Schools program with the effective selective personality-targeted Preventure program. This article describes the development and protocol of the CAP study which aims to prevent alcohol misuse and related harms in Australian adolescents. METHODS/
designA cluster randomized controlled trial (RCT) is being conducted with Year 8 students aged 13 to 14-years-old from 27 secondary schools in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia. Blocked randomisation was used to assign schools to one of four groups; Climate Schools only, Preventure only, CAP (Climate Schools and Preventure), or Control (alcohol, drug and health education as usual). The primary outcomes of the trial will be the uptake and harmful use of alcohol and alcohol related harms. Secondary outcomes will include alcohol and cannabis related knowledge, cannabis related harms, intentions to use, and mental health symptomatology. All participants will complete assessments on five occasions; baseline; immediately post intervention, and at 12, 24 and 36 months post baseline. DISCUSSION: This study protocol presents the design and current implementation of a cluster RCT to evaluate the efficacy of the CAP study; an integrated universal and selective approach to prevent alcohol use and related harms among adolescents. Compared to students who receive the stand-alone universal Climate Schools program or alcohol and drug education as usual (Controls), we expect the students who receive the CAP intervention to have significantly less uptake of alcohol use, a reduction in average alcohol consumption, a reduction in frequency of binge drinking, and a reduction in alcohol related harms.
trial registrationThis trial is registered with the Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials registry, ACTRN12612000026820.
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