Computer Adaptation of Screening, Brief MET Intervention to Reduce Teen Drinking

Tobacco Use Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Computer Adaptation of Screening, Brief MET Intervention to Reduce Teen Drinking

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01881841
• Other study ID #: JRKnightR34PA-13-078
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: June 18, 2013
• Last updated: April 18, 2017
• Start date: January 2015
• Est. completion date: August 2017

Study information

• Verified date: April 2017
• Source: Boston Children’s Hospital
• Contact: John R Knight, MD
• Phone: 617-355-5433
• Email: john.knight[@]childrens.harvard.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this project is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effect size of a new computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET) intervention for alcohol-involved adolescents in primary care.

Description:

The study aims are to:

1. Assess cMET feasibility and acceptability and estimate its effect size on underage drinking. Hypothesis: Among 14- to 20-yr-old primary care patients, those receiving cMET will have lower rates of any alcohol use, days of alcohol use, drinks per drinking day, and days of heavy episodic drinking, than those receiving treatment as usual.

2. Estimate effect sizes for tobacco, cannabis, and other drug use, and other substance-related risks and outcomes including substance-related driving/riding, and experience of substance-related problems.

3. Identify potential moderators and mediators of cMET's effect.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 150
• Est. completion date: August 2017
• Est. primary completion date: August 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 14 Years to 20 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 14- to 20- yr-olds

• arriving for routine care to one of our participating pediatric practices (Lexington Pediatrics, Lexington, MA; East Boston Community Health Center, Longwood Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center Adolescent Clinic, Boston, MA; Cambridge Health Alliance Dept. of Pediatrics, Cambridge, MA)

• any alcohol use days in the past 90 days,

• have an email address and internet access at home, school, or library

• provide informed assent/consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• unable to read or understand English,

• living away at college at the time of the recruitment visit,

• not available for computer/telephone follow-ups,

• judged by the provider to be medically or emotionally unstable at the time of the visit.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Abuse
• Alcoholism
• Substance Use
• Tobacco Use Disorder
• Underage Drinking

Intervention

Behavioral:
• cMET
Those in cMET complete the 2-session self-administered computerized intervention which includes 8 exercises designed to encourage adolescents to evaluate the impact of alcohol and other substance use on their health and well-being and consider changing their use.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Boston Children's Hospital	Boston	Massachusetts

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Boston Children’s Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Other	Heavy episodic drinking	The study investigators will measure the occurrences of heavy episodic drinking in the past 90 days at 3-, 6-, and 9-months follow-up.	up to 9-months follow-up
Primary	Alcohol use	The study investigators will measure the past 90 day alcohol use at 3-, 6-, and 9-months follow-up.	up to 9-months follow-up
Secondary	Drinks per drinking day	The study investigators will measure the number of drinks per drinking day in the past 90 days at 3-, 6-, and 9-months follow-up	up to 9-months follow-up

External Links

•   Web site of the Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research at Boston Children's Hospital