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Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults

NCT04461314 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2020-11-04

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Summary

Aim: Providing peer counselling service delivered by student counsellors with a medical background via a hotline to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below.

Objectives:

i. To raise anti-drug awareness of young people in general and identify high-risk/hidden drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below in Hong Kong; and ii. To train university students with a medical background as peer counsellors; and iii. To provide drug abuse hotline service by students with a medical background as peer counsellors to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below, and other people who call for help, including drug abusers' family members, friends, and professionals; and iv. To improve the drug-abusing youth and young adult' knowledge about the hazard of drug abuse, negative attitude, and perception towards the drug abuse through the telephone peer counselling service provided by students with medical background; and v. To increase the intention to quit and the help-seeking behavior among the drug-abusing youth and young adult; vi. To increase reduction rate and abstinence rate from drug abuse, and decrease the relapse rate among drug-abusing youth and young adult through the telephone peer counseling service.

Conditions

  • Drug Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

peer-led counselling

About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. A pre and post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire will be conducted before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge and attitudes. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure participants' perception of the quality of the training programme. Drug-abusing youth and young adults will receive telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to rehabilitate from drug abuse. The peer counsellors will give referral advice if the youth and young adult needs appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services. The drug abusers will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups will be invited to have a urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • The University of Hong Kong

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ho Cheung William Li, PhD · The University of Hong Kong

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-08-26
Primary Completion
2023-08-31
Completion
2023-08-31

Countries

  • Hong Kong

Study Locations

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