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A Randomized Trial of Letting Go and Staying Connected, an Interactive Parenting Intervention to Reduce Risky Behaviors Among Students

Award Number: R01DA039247
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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¿ DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): During the transition from home to college, students exhibit a dramatic increase in substance use, high- risk HIV/sex-risk behaviors, and associated harms. Prevalence of alcohol and marijuana use, and of non- medical prescription stimulant and painkiller use, is high among college students, who represent 40% of our young adult population. Parents remain influential with young adult students, but the mechanisms of risk and protection at this developmental stage in the family domain are not well understood. Our overarching goal is to reduce the incidence of death, injury, sexual assault, and academic failure related to substance use and related risk behaviors among college students. Our immediate objective is to test the efficacy of a preventive intervention for parents as their students transition to college. The rationale for this project, an interactive parent handbook, is that it wll provide college administrators with a new, low-cost tool that will (a) significantly reduce risk behaviors, injuries, sexual assault, and deaths; and (b) increase academic success among first- year students. The handbook, Letting Go and Staying Connected, is interactive, theoretically guided, and developmentally targeted. It will provide parents with evidence-based parenting skills during a transitional period in which they often seek guidance and support. Preliminary results from a pilot study indicate that students whose parents participated in the intervention were significantly less likely to use substances and experience harms during their first semester than were control students. We will randomly assign parent-student dyads (450 dyads per cohort; two cohorts) to one of three groups: Handbook, Handbook Plus (an innovative "booster" condition in which some Handbook parents receive tailored text messages), and Control. All participants will complete a baseline survey during summer before the first year of college. Handbook parents then receive the mailed handbook; Handbook Plus parents also receive booster messages in fall semester. Follow-up surveys will occur once a semester for two years. Our aims are 1) to test the efficacy of the Handbook: we expect that students of parents receiving the handbook will engage in less substance use and fewer high-risk sex behaviors than control students; 2) to evaluate mediating and moderating factors: our hypothesized model specifies that parent behaviors will mediate associations between Handbook use and student outcomes; and 3) to identify specific attributes of parent-student communication (e.g., content; tone; timing) that predict risk behaviors. The project will allow us to test protective effects of specific aspects of parenting behaviors, and results will extend our limited knowledge about malleable risk and protective factors in the family domain for this developmental period. Additionally, the project will take place in Washington, a state where the purchase, possession, and use of marijuana have recently been legalized, providing timely information about effects of parent communication specifically about marijuana. In sum the project has practical, scientific, and policy significance.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$37,916 )
2024	2020	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	5	4/2/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	-$37,916
														Subtotal = -$37,916

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $0 )
2022	2020	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	5	8/25/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $0

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $409,588 )
2020	2020	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	5	7/30/2020	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$409,588
														Subtotal = $409,588

Issue Date FY: 2019 ( Subtotal = $639,711 )
2019	2019	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	4	7/12/2019	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$639,711
														Subtotal = $639,711

Issue Date FY: 2018 ( Subtotal = $634,945 )
2018	2018	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	3	7/19/2018	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$501,517
2018	2018	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	001	3	9/12/2018	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$133,428
														Subtotal = $634,945

Issue Date FY: 2017 ( Subtotal = $530,922 )
2017	2017	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	240 FRENCH ADMINISTRATION BLDG	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	2	7/12/2017	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$530,922
														Subtotal = $530,922

Issue Date FY: 2016 ( Subtotal = $517,012 )
2016	2016	WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY	FRENCH ADMIN BLDG, ROOM 240K	PULLMAN	WA	99164	WHITMAN	USA	Drug Abuse and Addiction Research Programs	000	1	9/7/2016	NEW	$517,012
														Subtotal = $517,012

Grand Total All Awards = $2,694,262

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A Randomized Trial of Letting Go and Staying Connected, an Interactive Parenting Intervention to Reduce Risky Behaviors Among Students

Award Number: R01DA039247

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

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