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First Years Away From Home: Letting Go and Staying Connected

NCT03227809 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 910

Last updated 2020-05-19

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Summary

Alcohol abuse is the leading cause of death and serious injury among college students, and students also experience significant harms from other types of substance misuse and risk behaviors. The proposed project is a randomized controlled trials that will test the protective effects of Letting Go and Staying Connected, a handbook for parents of students who are transitioning for the first time from home to college, the time when students are at greatest risk. The handbook encourages parent skill development and good management of their student's new independence, providing a clear framework to guide them in parenting at this stage. Targeted outcomes include reduction of substance use and risk behaviors. The primary hypothesis is that students who are in one of the two handbook conditions with their parents will report lower substance use and risk behaviors in the two years after college entry.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Handbook condition

Parents of first-year university students receive parent handbook summer before start of university. Handbook contains suggestions for activities and conversations parents can conduct with students.

BEHAVIORAL

Handbook plus condition

Parents of first-year university students receive parent handbook summer before start of university. Handbook contains suggestions for activities and conversations parents can conduct with students. Parent also receive text messages throughout the year.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Washington State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Laura G Hill, PhD · Washington State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
17 Years
Max Age
22 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-04-01
Primary Completion
2020-05-11
Completion
2021-09-14

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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