Reducing High School Athletes' Prescription Opioids Misuse and Diversion Through the Student Athlete Wellness Portal

Reducing High School Athletes' Prescription Opioids Misuse and Diversion Through the Student Athlete Wellness Portal

Reducing High School Athletes' Prescription Opioids Misuse and Diversion Through the Student Athlete Wellness Portal

The goal of this study is to prevent prescription opioid misuse among high school athletes by developing, demonstrating the feasibility, and evaluating the outcomes of an innovative digital intervention.

The goal of this proposal is to prevent prescription opioid misuse among high school athletes by developing, demonstrating the feasibility, and evaluating the outcomes of an innovative digital intervention. The new program, the Student Athlete Wellness Portal (SAWP), will be a brief, web- and smartphone-based curriculum, and will encourage resistance to cultural influences to misuse prescription opioids. This portal, which was created based on formative interviews with athletes, coaches, athletic trainers, and school administrators, will be tested in a feasibility trial. One hundred and two high school athletes completed a pretest, participated in the treatment (the SAWP) and completed posttest assess their knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors relating to opioid medication.

Participants will know if they are receiving the Student Athlete Wellness Portal intervention during the study or afterwards.

10 items in agree-disagree format (sale 1-5) modified from the SUS scale to measure the useability of a website. Range 1-5, higher scores reflect better usability.

8 items in agree-disagree (scale 1-5) format to measure the degree to which a participant felt engaged with the website. Range 1-5, with higher scores reflecting more engagement. Subscales of interest, realism, and identification.

2 items measuring the degree (scale 1-5) to which participants felt confident resisting offers of prescription opioids. Range 1-5, with higher scores reflecting more efficacy.

2 items measured participants' willing to misuse opioids. Each presented a scenario followed by a checklist, each with 6 options indicating possible responses to opioid offers. For analyses, items were dichotomized to indicate if participants were willing to misuse (1) or not willing (0). If they checked any of the choices indicating they were willing to misuse prescription opioids, they were scored 1, which is the worst outcome. Range 0-1.

Inclusion Criteria: English-speaking male and female adolescents Ages 13-19 Attending middle or high school Playing at last one interscholastic sport Parental consent Exclusion Criteria: No parental consent outside the age range not participating in interscholastic sports not in middle or high school participated in the Phase I research

Access to trial IPD can be requested by qualified researchers engaging in independent scientific research, and will be provided following review and approval of a research proposal and Statistical Analysis Plan (SAP) and execution of a Data Sharing Agreement (DSA).

Jayawardene W, Pezalla A, Henderson C, Hecht M. Development of opioid rapid response system: Protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Contemp Clin Trials. 2022 Apr;115:106727. doi: 10.1016/j.cct.2022.106727. Epub 2022 Mar 13.