Luke Midgley

TL;DR: This three-stage framework extends current guidance on intervention development by providing step-by-step instructions for co-producing and prototyping an intervention’s content and delivery processes prior to piloting and formal evaluation.

TL;DR: Both interventions were acceptable to students, teachers and parents, but FRANK friends was preferred to +FRANK, and future work recommendations include progression to a Phase III effectiveness trial of FRank friends.

TL;DR: Policy development involving students is widely recommended, but there is little evidence of a beneficial association between lifetime cannabis use and involving students in policy development including student council consultation.

TL;DR: There is sufficient evidence to warrant a full-scale cluster-randomised controlled trial of FRANK friends, and both interventions were acceptable to students, teachers, and parents, and delivered as intended, but FRank friends was preferred over +FRANK.

TL;DR: This paper explored the development and implementation of substance misuse prevention policies in secondary schools in Wales and found 95.5% of secondary schools had a substance misuse policy and no beneficial association between the involvement of students in policy development and illicit drug use.