Testing Strategies to Improve Substance Misuse Prevention Research Use in State Policy Contexts

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Conditions studied: Substance Abuse, Substance Use Disorders, Prevention, Legislation, Use of Research Evidence

In brief

If science is to inform effective substance misuse prevention policy and ultimately improve public health, the field needs an effective strategy for directly supporting policymakers' use of research evidence, yet our field lacks an evidence-based model designed for this purpose. Accordingly, a state-level randomized controlled trial (N = 30 states) of a formal, theory-based approach for appropriately supporting policymakers' use of scientific evidence--known as the Research-to-Policy Collaboration (RPC) Model is proposed. This work has the potential to reduce population-level substance misuse by improving the use of scientific information in policymaking, thus increasing the availability of evidence-based prevention programs and policies.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06856148

Run by

Penn State University

People needed

300

Starts

2023-04-01

Expected to finish

2027-03-31

Last updated by the study team

2025-03-06

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• State-level public officials

You may not qualify if…

• Anyone who is not a state-level public official

Where it is running

• Penn State University — University Park, Pennsylvania, United States (enrolling)

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