Trial reportAddiction (Abingdon, England)2015
Can cannabis use be prevented by targeting personality risk in schools? Twenty-four-month outcome of the adventure trial on cannabis use: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.
Trial report in Addiction (Abingdon, England), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05383989 (UniVenture), which is not on this map. Cited by 29 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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UniVenture: A Partnership to Address Heavy Drinking and Other Substance Misuse on Canadian University Campuses
Who cites it
29 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Selective prevention programs for substance and behavioral addictions in adolescents: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Brief School-Based Interventions Targeting Student Mental Health or Well-Being: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Identifying brief intervention factors to improve cannabis related outcomes in adolescents and young adults: A systematic review of sample characteristics and intervention components.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2024Pooled it
- Selective Personality-Targeted Intervention and the Escalation of Substance Use During Adolescence: A Secondary Analysis of A Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2025Trial
- Bridging the gap between genetic epidemiological research and prevention: A randomized control trial of a novel personalized feedback program for alcohol and cannabis use.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2023Trial
- The effectiveness of an indicated prevention programme for substance use in individuals with mild intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning: results of a quasi-experimental study.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2021Trial
- Universal cannabis outcomes from the Climate and Preventure (CAP) study: a cluster randomised controlled trial.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2018Trial
- Can cannabis use be prevented by targeting personality risk in schools? Twenty-four-month outcome of the adventure trial on cannabis use: a cluster-randomized controlled trial.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2015Trial
- The mediating role of motives in the associations between the big five personality traits and marijuana outcomes: A cross-national study across four countries.Addictive behaviors reports · 2026Article
- Parental phubbing and mobile phone addiction among Chinese adolescents: a moderated mediation model.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- A Review of Historical Context and Current Research on Cannabis Use in India.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Examining Differences in Emotion Dysregulation Between Emerging Adult Alcohol-Only Users, Abstainers, and Simultaneous Users.Cannabis (Albuquerque, N.M.) · 2023Article
- Anxiety sensitivity and cannabis use motives among trauma-exposed young adult cannabis users.The American journal on addictions · 2022Article
- Associations of cannabis- and tobacco-related problem severity with reward and punishment sensitivity and impulsivity in adolescent daily cigarette smokers.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2021Article
- Classical and Neural Network Machine Learning to Determine the Risk of Marijuana Use.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Which came first: Cannabis use or deficits in impulse control?Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry · 2021Review
- Personality to Prescription Drug Misuse in Adolescents: Testing Affect Regulation, Psychological Dysregulation, and Deviance Proneness Pathways.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Take it personal! Development and modelling study of an indicated prevention programme for substance use in adolescents and young adults with mild intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning.Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2021Article
- The neurobiology of impulsivity and substance use disorders: implications for treatment.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Review
- Impulsivities and addictions: a multidimensional integrative framework informing assessment and interventions for substance use disorders.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
aimsTo examine the effectiveness of a personality-targeted intervention program (Adventure trial) delivered by trained teachers to high-risk (HR) high-school students on reducing marijuana use and frequency of use.
designA cluster-randomized controlled trial.
settingSecondary schools in London, UK.
participantsTwenty-one secondary schools were randomized to intervention (n = 12) or control (n = 9) conditions, encompassing a total of 1038 HR students in the ninth grade [mean (standard deviation) age = 13.7 (0.33) years].
interventionsBrief personality-targeted interventions to students with one of four HR profiles: anxiety sensitivity, hopelessness, impulsivity and sensation-seeking. MEASUREMENTS: PRIMARY OUTCOME: marijuana use. Secondary outcome: frequency of use. Assessed using the Reckless Behaviour Questionnaire at intervals of 6 months for 2 years. Personality risk was measured with the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale.
findingsLogistic regression analysis revealed significant intervention effects on cannabis use rates at the 6-month follow-up in the intent-to-treat sample [odds ratio (OR) = 0.67, P = 0.05, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.45-1.0] and significant reductions in frequency of use at 12- and 18-month follow-up (β = -0.14, P ≤ 0.05, 95% CI = -0.6 to -0.01; β = -0.12, P ≤ 0.05, 95% CI = -0.54 to 0.0), but this was not supported in two-part latent growth models. Subgroup analyses (both logistic and two-part models) reveal that the sensation-seeking intervention delayed the onset of cannabis use among sensation seekers (OR = 0.25, β = -0.833, standard error = 0.342, P = 0.015).
conclusionsPersonality-targeted interventions can be delivered effectively by trained school staff to delay marijuana use onset among a subset of high-risk teenagers: sensation-seekers.
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