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The purpose of this project is to determine whether participants who receive a personalized feedback report and educational materials about risky cannabis use will be less likely to report risky cannabis use at follow-up compared to participants who only received educational materials.
This project aims to reduce risky cannabis use among those with less severe cannabis use, most of whom will never seek formal treatment. All of the participants will receive educational material regarding risky cannabis use and its prevention. Half of the participants will also be assigned by chance to receive a personalized feedback report.
The investigators hypothesize that:
A 2-arm parallel group randomized controlled trial will be conducted to test these hypotheses with follow-ups occurring at 3 and 6 months after randomization. Online media advertisements will be used to recruit people currently using cannabis. The advertisements will be placed across Canada using locations found successful in previous trials to rapidly recruit participants (e.g. Google AdWords).
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Personalized Feedback and Education | Experimental | This arm is provided personalized feedback concerning their cannabis use in addition to educational materials about risky cannabis use. |
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| Education | Active Comparator | This arm is provided educational materials about risky cannabis use. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Personalized Feedback | Behavioral | A report comparing the participant's cannabis use to peer usage, and summarizing problems experienced and risk associated with future use. |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Cannabis Use in the last 30 days | Change in the number of days participant used cannabis in the past 30-days from baseline | 3 and 6 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST, cannabis subscale) | Change in cannabis subscale scores from baseline. Scores are calculated as a sum of six items and totals can range from 0 to 39 with higher scores indicating greater risk. | Baseline, 3 and 6 months |
| Perceptions of Cannabis Use by Peers in the past 3 months |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| John A Cunningham, Ph.D. | Centre for Addiction and Mental Health | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Centre for Addiction Mental Health | Toronto | Ontario | M5S 2S1 | Canada |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 37051014 | Derived | Cunningham JA, Schell C, Bertholet N, Wardell JD, Quilty LC, Godinho A. Normative Misperceptions About Cannabis Use in a Sample of Risky Cannabis Users. Subst Abuse. 2023 Apr 6;17:11782218231166809. doi: 10.1177/11782218231166809. eCollection 2023. |
| Label | URL |
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| Description Information about research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada's largest mental health and addiction teaching hospital, fully affiliated with the University of Toronto, and a PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centre | View source |
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| ID | Term |
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| D004522 | Educational Status |
| ID | Term |
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| D012959 | Socioeconomic Factors |
| D011154 | Population Characteristics |
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| Education | Behavioral | Canada's Lower-Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines prepared by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health which outlines methods to help reduce health risks associated with cannabis use. |
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Change in participant's perceptions of how much their peers (same age and gender) use cannabis. Measured as a percentage of peers that do not use cannabis (%) and a 5-points Likert scale, 0 "Never" to 5 "Daily or Almost daily" of frequency of peer use |
| Baseline, 3 months |