A Scoping Review of Interventions for College Students’ Cannabis Misuse Protocol
Creators: name: Hone, Liana
name: Boness, Cassandra
name: Morgan, Jane
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: Objective: The primary objective of this scoping review is to compile a comprehensive list of existing interventions for cannabis misuse among US college students to identify gaps that need to be filled by future randomized clinical trials (RCTs). Introduction: US colleges are facing an epidemic of student cannabis use, with past year use recently reaching historic numbers: In 2020, 44% of college students reported using cannabis in the past year and 8% report using daily, compared to 38% past year and 5% daily in 2015 (National Institutes of Health, 2021; Schulenberg et al., 2021). To help colleges face this challenge, an organized list or resource of all available evidence-based, individual-focused cannabis interventions for college students is needed to support our prevention experts at institutions of higher education. A first step in creating such a tool is conducting a scoping review of interventions targeting cannabis misuse, particularly those that have been rigorously evaluated through an RCT or equivalent. Inclusion criteria: We will include RCTs, or equivalent, intervention studies for cannabis that involve participants who are adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15 and 25 enrolled in colleges/universities. We will target studies with participants recruited from higher education institutions, such as 2-year community colleges, trade schools, and 4-year colleges/universities, minority serving institutions (MSIs), and predominantly white institutions (PWIs) in the United States. Methods: We will search the databases Embase (Elsevier), PsycINFO (EBSCOhost), Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCOhost), PubMed, and Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics) from 2006 (the earliest reported study in a similar review was published in this year) to 2021 and limit our search to English language experimental studies. Literature search results will be uploaded into Zotero and manually de-duplicated before being uploaded into Covidence for screening. The team will develop and test screening questions and forms for assessments based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Articles that appear to meet study criteria based on title and abstract screening will have full text articles uploaded into Covidence for further screening by the study team. Two or more reviewers will independently screen the titles and abstracts from the initial literature search against the inclusion criteria. Full text articles for approved articles will then be screened independently by two or more reviewers. Any discrepancies about inclusion will be resolved by discussion or by an additional reviewer. We will record reasons for excluding trials. Reviewer teams will extract data independently and in duplicate from each eligible study using an online extraction form. This form will be piloted and calibrated with all reviewers prior to formal data extraction. Discrepancies about inclusion will be resolved by discussion, and a third reviewer will be brought into discussion if necessary. We will contact study authors to resolve any uncertainties that emerge in the review process.