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Substance Use Prevention in Teen Psychiatric Patients

NCT01170013 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 68

Last updated 2012-07-31

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Summary

The earlier a child initiates alcohol and other drug (AOD) use, the greater the risk of long-range problems. This association persists despite changes in national substance use rates over time, indicating its stability and viability as a target for prevention. At the same time, parent monitoring of youth behavior tends to decrease during the adolescent years, creating a source of risk for not only the early onset of AOD use but also escalation. Thus, programs are needed in parenting behaviors and family relationships that are protective in helping pre-adolescent youth to avoid initiation of AOD use and abuse. This is particularly true of children with psychiatric disorders who are at higher risk for developing AOD disorders than nonpsychiatrically disturbed children. The primary goal of this study is to test the effectiveness of a family-centered intervention to reduce the risk of AOD use among pre-adolescent children with a history of emotional/behavioral problems. In this application, the families of 80 youths aged 12-14 years, who have not yet begun AOD use but have been referred for mental health care due to psychiatric symptomatology, will be randomly assigned to receive either an individually tailored family program or standard care. The experimental intervention, which is based on the Family Check-Up model (Dishion \& Kavanagh, 2003), provides a thorough assessment of family strengths and weaknesses as they relate to future risk for AOD use as well as emotional/behavioral problems, and utilizes principles of motivational interviewing to encourage families to change. Follow-up interviews will be conducted at 6 and 12 months after baseline to assess changes in parenting, AOD use, and other risky behaviors.

Conditions

  • Adolescent Substance Use

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Family Check-up

Two session motivational intervention to improve parent monitoring and communication with respect to adolescent risk behavior especially substance use

BEHAVIORAL

Parent psychoeducation

Two sessions of psychoeducation for parents regarding adolescent risk behaviors. especially substance use

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Brown University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Anthony Spirito, PhD · Brown University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
12 Years
Max Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-08-31
Primary Completion
2011-03-31
Completion
2011-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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