Target behaviour | Who | What | When | Where |
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Increase students’ behavioural awareness regarding their decision to take drugs Reflect on alternatives to drug-use activities which fulfil personal enhancements | Higher education students (aged 18–25 yrs) Full-time/ part time students, Erasmus/visiting students (bachelor to graduate studies) | 1. Pause automatic/habitual decision making in relation to drug-use 2. Increase behavioural awareness in relation to drug-use decision making 3. Committing in specified goals which can fulfil personal enhancements | 1. In night outs/ social media/ festive periods 2. During induction weeks 3. Before, during & after the exam’s periods 4. Randomly repeated during the semester | Social contexts involving a decision to take drugs (e.g. at campus, in social media, streets around the university, etc.) |
Selected items derided from the Delphi-type exercise using the APEASE criteria | ||||
[A1] Users to compare their own use with the norm (descriptive norm correction; e.g. % of students with higher use than their own) | ||||
[A2] Users to reflect on their close friends’ perception about their own use or abstinence (injunctive norm correction) | ||||
[A5] Users to find out personally relevant primary motives for use, listing the personal enhancements drug use fulfil to them (underlying needs that drive the decision to take drugs) | ||||
[A10] Users to reflect on the possible negative consequences of using drugs on academic, athletic and social performance |