Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice to Reduce Teen Drinking

Alcohol Abuse Clinical Trial

Official title: Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice to Reduce Teen Drinking

Status Withdrawn

Clinical Trial Summary

The goal of this project is to adapt a computerized Screening and Brief Advice (SBA) protocol that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing underage drinking among adolescent primary care patients and then to test it in a multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Clinical Trial Description

The specific aims of the proposed multisite RCT are:

1. To establish the efficacy of the computerized SBA protocol on alcohol use, on DWI/RWID, and other alcohol-related health risk behaviors;

2. To test the effect of Technological Extenders (TE) on prolonging the beneficial effects of the SBA protocol;

3. To identify moderators, mediators, and optimal responders to the SBA/TE interventions;

4. To examine the association between cessation of underage drinking and other health-risk behaviors in an adolescent primary care sample. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Screening

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Abuse
• Alcoholism
• Risk Behavior
• Underage Drinking

• NCT number: NCT00849589
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Boston Children’s Hospital
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2010
• Completion date: December 2014