Community Trial in the Cherokee Nation
Opioid Abuse
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Opioid Abuse focused on measuring American Indian, Cherokee Nation, Community intervention
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Tenth grade students enrolled in the participating high schools
Exclusion Criteria:
- unable to understand written or verbal English
Inclusion criteria for high schools:
- Counties that partially or fully fall within the Cherokee Nation reservation
- Town population of 3,000 or less
- Class size between 30 to 100 students
Exclusion criteria for high schools:
- Metropolitan and micropolitan cores (Rural-Urban Commuting Area codes of 1 and 4)
- Existence of a community drug prevention coalition
Sites / Locations
- Cherokee Nation Reservation
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Preventive Intervention
Delayed Intervention Control Group
Students in schools assigned to the preventive intervention study condition will take part in the Connect school-based prevention program and the community-level Communities Mobilizing for Change and Action (CMCA) intervention.
Students in schools assigned to the control group will not receive the Connect and CMCA interventions. Schools in the control group will receive usual school and community prevention and be offered the trial's programs after this three-year study ends.