Advancing Adolescent Screening and Brief Intervention Protocols in Primary Care Settings

Substance Abuse Clinical Trial

Official title:

Advancing Adolescent Screening and Brief Intervention Protocols in Primary Care Settings

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Withdrawn

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01523444
• Other study ID #: ASBIRT-PA-11-311
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: Phase 3
• Start date: September 2013
• Est. completion date: November 2017

Study information

• Verified date: March 2023
• Source: Public Health Management Corporation
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This proposed study tests the effectiveness and examines the implementation of screening and brief intervention techniques to delay initiation and reduce substance use among adolescents accessing medical care in Federally Qualified Health Care settings with a computer-facilitated intervention. The primary hypothesis is that participants in the intervention groups will be more likely to cease or reduce substance use at follow-up compared to clients in the treatment as usual condition.

Description:

The aims of the proposed 5-year study are threefold: (1) To examine the effectiveness of a computer-facilitated Screening and Brief Advice (cSBA) to reduce initiation and substance abuse among adolescents in a novel setting; (2) To examine the comparative effectiveness of adding a Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment component to the cSBA intervention among adolescents in these centers; (3) To examine factors facilitating and inhibiting the implementation of SBIRT-type procedures with adolescents in FQHCs.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Withdrawn
• Enrollment: 0
• Est. completion date: November 2017
• Est. primary completion date: February 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 12 Years to 18 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• 12-18 year old patients seeking care at the primary care participating sites

Exclusion Criteria:

• Unable to read and understand English

• Medically unstable

• Unavailable for follow-up

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Substance Abuse
• Substance-Related Disorders

Intervention

Behavioral:
• computer-assisted Screening & Brief Advice
The computer-facilitated screening and brief advice (cSBA) intervention is a self-administered, computer-facilitated screening that asks about lifetime and past-12-month use of substances followed by scientific information about how substance use affects health and true-life stories illustrating the health risks of substance use. The cSBA program prints out a Report Form with the screening results, risk level, and "talking points" designed to prompt a 2 to 3-minute provider/teen conversation about the health effects of substance use, which recommends abstinence.
• computer-assisted Screening & Brief Advice Plus
The cSBA+ intervention contains cSBA intervention elements plus the delivery of a brief, two-session motivational enhancement therapy (MET) intervention to be delivered a Behavioral Health Counselor (BHC) at the clinic immediately after meeting with the primary care provider. In the first session of this intervention, youth should be encouraged to think about: (1) The role alcohol and drugs play in his/her life; (2) His/her personal goals for changing alcohol and drug use; (3) Strategies for reaching and maintaining goals. The goal at the end of the session is positive movement in the direction of abstinence or change. The aim of the second session is reinforcement of goals set forth in the prior meeting with the BHC.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Treatment Research Institute	Philadelphia	Pennsylvania

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Treatment Research Institute

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Reduced substance use		3 and 12 months
Secondary	Initiation of substance use		3 and 12 Months