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Multilevel population-based cross-sectional study examining school substance-misuse policy and the use of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances among students aged 11-16 years in schools in Wales (2018)
Journal Article
Midgley, L. S., Murphy, S., Moore, G., Hewitt, G., & White, J. (2018). Multilevel population-based cross-sectional study examining school substance-misuse policy and the use of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances among students aged 11-16 years in schools in Wales. BMJ Open, 8(6), e020737. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020737

Objectives: To examine whether young peoples' risk of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances (NPS) use is associated with school substance-misuse policy. Design: A cross-sectional survey of secondary school students combined with a Sc... Read More about Multilevel population-based cross-sectional study examining school substance-misuse policy and the use of cannabis, mephedrone and novel psychoactive substances among students aged 11-16 years in schools in Wales.

Adaptation of the ASSIST peer-led smoking intervention to deliver information from the Talk to FRANK drug education website (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
White, J., Hawkins, J., Madden, K., Grant, A., Er, V., Angel, L., …Moore, L. (2017). Adaptation of the ASSIST peer-led smoking intervention to deliver information from the Talk to FRANK drug education website (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial. Lancet, 390(Supplement 3), S1. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736%2817%2932936-7

Background Illicit drug use increases the risk of poor physical and mental health. Few effective school-based drug prevention interventions are available. We adapted an effective school-based peer-led smoking prevention intervention (ASSIST) to de... Read More about Adaptation of the ASSIST peer-led smoking intervention to deliver information from the Talk to FRANK drug education website (ASSIST+FRANK): a pilot cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Adapting the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to FRANK drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST + FRANK): intervention development, refinement and a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (2017)
Journal Article
White, J., Hawkins, J., Madden, K., Grant, A., Er, V., Angel, L., …Moore, L. Adapting the ASSIST model of informal peer-led intervention delivery to the Talk to FRANK drug prevention programme in UK secondary schools (ASSIST + FRANK): intervention development, refinement and a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial. Public Health Research, 5(7), 1-98. https://doi.org/10.3310/phr05070

Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions (2017)
Journal Article
Hawkins, J., Madden, K., Fletcher, A., Midgley, L., Grant, A., Cox, G., …White, J. (2017). Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions. BMC Public Health, 17(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-017-4695-8

Background: Existing guidance for developing public health interventions does not provide information for researchers about how to work with intervention providers to co-produce and prototype the content and delivery of new interventions prior to eva... Read More about Development of a framework for the co-production and prototyping of public health interventions.