Alcohol Screening in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Adolescents in Primary Care

Drug Use Clinical Trial

Official title:

Alcohol Screening in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Adolescents in Primary Care

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01797835
• Other study ID #: 1R01AA021786
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 2013
• Est. completion date: August 2018

Study information

• Verified date: July 2019
• Source: RAND
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Screening youth in the primary care setting is one way to identify adolescents who may be at-risk for future alcohol problems. The current study tests the new NIAAA screening guide questions, which ask about friend and adolescent drinking, to see how well these questions work to predict subsequent alcohol use, problems, and involvement in other risk behaviors, such as sexual risk-taking and delinquency. In addition, the investigators plan to provide a brief motivational intervention for some at-risk teens and see whether alcohol use differs for those teens who receive the intervention and those teens who receive enhanced usual care. The results of this study have the potential to significantly impact the standard of care for identifying and intervening with at- risk youth in primary care settings.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 294
• Est. completion date: August 2018
• Est. primary completion date: November 2015
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: 1

• 12-18

• speak English

Exclusion Criteria:

• cognitive impairment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Use
• Drug Use

Intervention

Behavioral:
• CHAT brief MI intervention
CHAT is one 15-20 minute session delivered in a single PC visit and utilizes motivational interviewing with youth to target alcohol and drug use in primary care.
• usual care
Youth receive a brochure with information on AOD use.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Valley Community Clinic	North Hollywood	California
United States	UPMC St. Margaret	Pittsburgh	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (3)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
RAND	University of Pittsburgh, Valley Community Clinic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Number of Times Used Alcohol	in the past three months: Number of times used alcohol; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).	Past 3 months
Secondary	Number of Times Used Marijuana	number of times used marijuana in the past 3 months; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).	Past 3 months