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A Cannabis Harm Reduction e-Intervention for Young Cannabis Users With Early Psychosis

NCT04968275 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 101

Last updated 2024-05-16

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Summary

Cannabis users who experienced a psychosis are particularly vulnerable to cannabis-related harms, which can include worse psychotic symptoms and more hospitalizations. Unfortunately, few psychosocial interventions exist that aim to decrease these harms. Instead, most focus on ceasing cannabis use which is rarely appealing to cannabis users. Furthermore, face-to-face psychotherapy often remains inaccessible to people with psychosis mostly due to lack of trained clinicians. Alternatives such as e-interventions have the potential to increase access to treatment and decrease clinicians' workload. Among cannabis harm reduction approaches are the protective behavioural strategies. These strategies do not encourage nor discourage cannabis use. Instead, they recommend behaviours for safer cannabis use. For example, these strategies include: 1) avoid driving a car under the influence of cannabis, 2) avoid mixing cannabis with other drugs and 3) purchase cannabis only from a trusted source. In the present pan-Canadian study, we will test the first e-intervention called CHAMPS (Cannabis Harm-reducing App for Managing Practices Safely) for cannabis harm reduction adapted for young adult cannabis users who experienced a psychosis. CHAMPS is a smartphone application that includes 17 strategies for safer cannabis use, a personalized consumption goal and a consumption journal. The goals of this study are 1) to confirm whether CHAMPS is acceptable to participants and 2) to test whether it works, notably by positively impacting participants' health and cannabis consumption habits.

Conditions

  • Psychotic Disorder
  • Marijuana Use
  • Young Adult

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

CHAMPS

CHAMPS provides personalized feedback on participants' cannabis use behaviors and supports strategies to change such behaviors. It comprises six modules measuring the use of cannabis protective behavioural strategies, exploring the possible benefits of changing cannabis practices and setting and monitoring the reach of a SMART cannabis use goal.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Ministere de la Sante et des Services Sociaux

    collaborator OTHER

  • Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Didier Jutras-Aswad, MD, MSc · Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-08-23
Primary Completion
2023-09-30
Completion
2023-10-24

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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