The Development and Evaluation of a Culturally Grounded ENDS Intervention for Rural Hawaiian Youth
Who can join
Ages 10 to 14 · All sexes · Healthy volunteers welcome
Full eligibility criteria
Inclusion Criteria: * 6th-8th grade students attending a public or public-charter school on Hawaii Island. Exclusion Criteria: * K-5th grade students and 9th-12th grade students on Hawaii Island.
About the study
The purpose of this research proposal is to develop and evaluate a culturally grounded, ENDS prevention intervention for rural Hawaiian youth. This will be accomplished through two specific aims. AIM 1 (Years 1-3) are focused on pre-intervention and intervention development. In Year 1, youth focus groups will be conducted to assess the environmental demands related to ENDS use in rural Hawai'i. In Year 2, specific ENDS-related problem situations (i.e., situations that increase risk for ENDS use) will be extracted from the Year 1 focus groups and prioritized through survey methods with 200-250 predominately Native Hawaiian youth across 16 different middle/intermediate schools on Hawai'i Island. In Year 3, five situations found to be the most frequently experienced and/or difficult to manage by youth surveyed in Year 2 will serve as the foundation for the development of narrative scripts. Three of these scripts will be cast and filmed on location on Hawai'i Island by a professional film director, and will be edited into three short films, 6-8 video clips, and 6-8 professional photos or production stills. Similar to the investigators' prior drug prevention research in rural Hawai'i, classroom-based lessons will be created to support the short films. Additional lessons and videos from an evidence-based, culturally grounded substance abuse prevention curriculum for Hawaiian youth (Ho'ouna Pono) will be used to create a modular classroom curriculum. The video clips and professional photography/production stills will be embedded with prevention messaging, and will be used for a social and print media campaign to reinforce the classroom curriculum. AIM 2 (Years 4-5) is to evaluate the ENDS prevention intervention (classroom curriculum plus social/print media campaign) across all middle/intermediate public or public-charter schools (N = 16) and up to 11 different cultural immersion charter schools on Hawai'i Island using a dynamic wait-listed control group design.
What is being tested
- ENDS Prevention Intervention (TBD) (behavioral)
Sponsor: University of Hawaii · Participants: 500 · Started: Oct 15, 2025
Contact the study team
- Scott K Okamoto, PhD · Phone: 808-356-5775
Official record on ClinicalTrials.gov — NCT06929520
Locations in the U.S.
| Hawaii | University of Hawaii, Honolulu |
Conditions
From ClinicalTrials.gov, data retrieved Sep 30, 2026. Each study sets its own eligibility; the study team decides who can join.