Based on the biological-psychology-sociological medicine pattern, this study aims to construction an early warning model of the New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) using for adolescents aged 14-35 years old. This study intends to obtain the data related to the behavioral expression of addiction susceptibility genes, adverse childhood experience, cognition, resistance and the use of NPS in adolescents by questionnaire survey (sample size: 200), and then use logistic regression and machine learning to construct an early warning model.
Based on the biological-psychology-sociological medicine pattern, this study aims to construction an early warning model on the use of the New Psychoactive Substances using for adolescents aged 14-35 years old. This study intends to conduct a questionnaire survey (sample size 200) to obtain data related to the behavioral expression of addiction susceptibility genes, childhood adversity experience, cognition, resistance and the use of NPS in adolescents from different regions and different populations. Through data analysis, this study aims to get the weight of different risk factors on NPS use, and then use logistic regression and machine learning to construct an early warning model, so as to screen out high-risk groups. At the same time, the expert group was consulted to establish a risk early warning system to provide a basis for intervention.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
200
Participants will be asked to complete the questionnaire including general demographic information, the cognition, resistance and use of NPS as well as the behavioral expression of addiction susceptibility genes and adverse childhood experience.
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
the cognition of NPS
knowledge questionnaire of drug types and risk awareness of drug use will be investigated to know the degree of cognition to NPS
Time frame: Baseline
the resistance of NPS
the drug refusal self-efficacy scale and the drug use permissive attitude will be used to measure the the resistance of NPS
Time frame: Baseline
the use of NPS
there will be some questions to investigate the drug use conditions
Time frame: Baseline
Adverse Childhood Experience
the Chinese version of Adverse Childhood Experience Scale with 10 items will be used to measure the adverse childhood experience
Time frame: Baseline
hedonic hunger
the Power of Food Scale with 15 items will be used to measure hedonic hunger
Time frame: Baseline
sensation seeking personality
the Brief Sensation Seeking Scale for Chinese with 8 items will be used to measure sensation seeking personality
Time frame: Baseline
prosocial behavior
the Prosocial Tendencies Measure with 26 items will be used to measure prosocial behavior
Time frame: Baseline
externalizing behavior
17 items of aggressive behavior and 15 items of rule-breaking behavior from the Chinese Version of Achenbach Youth Self-Report-2001 Version will be used to measure adolescents' degree of externalizing behavior
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Time frame: Baseline
sleep quality
the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index with 9 items will be used to measure adolescents' sleep quality
Time frame: Baseline