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CompletedNCT05209191Updated Sep 15, 2023Results posted

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

An interventional study of Student Athlete Wellness Portal in Prescription Opioid Misuse, sponsored by Real Prevention, LLC. Completed at 5 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 13 Years to 19 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-09-15.

Sponsored by Real Prevention, LLC · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention

From the registry’s dates

  • Registered 1 year 8 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Apr 2020, registered Jan 2022).
Phase
Not applicable
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
102
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
13 Years to 19 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

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.

Read the detailed description

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.

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Conditions studied

  • Prescription Opioid Misuse
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In context

Opioid-Related Disorders

1,411 studies on the registry are indexed under Opioid-Related Disorders; 290 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 102 is above the median of 63 across 1,123 interventional studies indexed under Opioid-Related Disorders.

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Lead sponsor

Real Prevention, LLC is the lead sponsor of 6 studies on the registry; none are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
13 Years to 19 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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

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
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Study design

Phase
Not applicable
Primary purpose
Prevention
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
102 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Student Athlete Wellness Portal

    Web-based intervention that illustrates opioid misuse and diversion resistance strategies.

    Behavioral: Student Athlete Wellness Portal

Interventions

  • BehavioralStudent Athlete Wellness Portal

    A web-based design that illustrates various opioid misuse and diversion resistance strategies.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Usability

    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.

    Time frame: Posttest

  2. Engagement

    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.

    Time frame: Posttest

  3. Efficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids

    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.

    Time frame: Posttest.

  4. Number of Participants Willing to Misuse Prescription Opioids

    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.

    Time frame: Posttest

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Results

Posted Aug 22, 2023
Limitations and caveats
COVID caused a change to a single group study, eliminating the control group. The brevity of the study resulted in fewer items \& lower reliability than desirable in some cases.

Participant flow

Recruitment for the trial began April 24, 2020. Four high schools were recruited to participate. Due to COVID-19, 3 dropped out. New high schools were recruited to replace them but new waves of COVID required delays in completing recruitment.

Participant flow — Overall Study
MilestoneStudent Athlete Wellness Portal
Started102
Completed102
Not completed0

Outcome measures

PrimaryUsability

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.

Time frame:
Posttest
Reported as:
Mean · score on a scale
Usability
score on a scaleStudent Athlete Wellness Portal
Usability3.49 ± 0.65
Statistical analysis
  • Student Athlete Wellness Portal · t-test, 2 sided · p = .001 · Mean difference (net): 7.28
PrimaryEngagement

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.

Time frame:
Posttest
Reported as:
Mean · score on a scale
Engagement
score on a scaleStudent Athlete Wellness Portal
Engagement3.50 ± 0.72
PrimaryEfficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids

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.

Time frame:
Posttest.
Reported as:
Mean · score on a scale
Efficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids
score on a scaleStudent Athlete Wellness Portal
Efficacy in Resisting Offers of Opioids3.91 ± 1.02
Statistical analysis
  • Student Athlete Wellness Portal · t-test, 2 sided · p = .38 · Mean difference (net): 0.08
PrimaryNumber of Participants Willing to Misuse Prescription Opioids

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.

Time frame:
Posttest
Reported as:
Count of participants · Participants
Number of Participants Willing to Misuse Prescription Opioids
ParticipantsStudent Athlete Wellness Portal
Pretest44
Posttest37
Statistical analysis
  • Student Athlete Wellness Portal · Chi-squared · p = .001 · Chi square: 52.07

Adverse events

Collected over Participants were involved in study for approximately 30 minutes or less.. Non-serious events are listed at a 0% frequency threshold.

Adverse event summary by group
GroupDeathsSeriousOther
Student Athlete Wellness Portal0/102 (0%)0/102 (0%)0/102 (0%)

Baseline characteristics

Age, Continuous
Age, Continuous(years)Student Athlete Wellness Portal
Mean16.6 ± 1.50
Sex: Female, Male
Sex: Female, Male(Participants)Student Athlete Wellness Portal
Female49
Male53
Race/Ethnicity, Customized
Race/Ethnicity, Customized(Participants)Student Athlete Wellness Portal
Hispanic8
White, not Hispanic57
Black or African American17
Asian5
American Indian/Alaskan Native5
other10
Region of Enrollment
Region of Enrollment(Participants)Student Athlete Wellness Portal
United States102
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Study locations

5 sites
  • Clifton High School
    Clifton, New Jersey 07013, United States
  • Central York High School
    York, Pennsylvania 17401, United States
  • Northern York High School
    York, Pennsylvania 17401, United States
  • York Catholic High School
    York, Pennsylvania 17403, United States
  • Dickinson High School
    Galveston, Texas 77539, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • 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. PubMed 35296414 ↗

Study documents

  • Protocol, analysis plan and consent form · Sep 13, 2022

Documents are hosted by the registry — open the source record to download them.

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — Data will be shared according to NIH procedures once publications are completed.

Supporting information: Study protocol, Sap, Icf, Csr

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Sep 15, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05209191
Lead sponsor
Real Prevention, LLC
Collaborators
University of Missouri-Columbia
Responsible party
Michael Hecht (President, Real Prevention, LLC) — Principal investigator
First posted
Jan 26, 2022
Start date
Apr 24, 2020
Primary completion
May 31, 2022
Completion
Jun 30, 2022
Results posted
Aug 22, 2023
Last update
Sep 15, 2023

Study contacts

Michael L Hecht
principal investigator · Real Prevention, LLC

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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