Individual and Family Motivational Interviews for Substance Using Truant Teens
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Purpose
This application will provide a test of one potential model for adding substance use assessment and brief intervention into a truancy court program. The primary goal of this study is to determine whether a motivational intervention will reduce substance use among adolescents referred to truancy court for school attendance problems. In this treatment development application, an open trial with 20 families referred by truancy court will first be conducted. This trial will be used to adapt an existing motivational intervention to include material relevant to school attendance and performance. Then 100 families participating in the Rhode Island Truancy Court Program with adolescents between the ages of 13-16 years who report using substances will be randomly assigned to receive the experimental intervention plus standard truancy court procedures or psychoeducation plus standard truancy court procedures. The 2-session intervention protocol consists of an individual motivational interview plus the Family Check-Up (Dishion & Kavanagh, 2003), a family based motivational interview. The experimental protocol provides a thorough assessment of both individual and family strengths and weaknesses with respect to substance use prevention and school attendance/performance. Follow-up interviews will be conducted at 3 and 6 months.
| Condition | Intervention | Phase |
|---|---|---|
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Substance Use Risky Sexual Behavior |
Behavioral: Family Check-up/ Individual MI Behavioral: Individual and family psychoeducation |
Phase 1 |
| Study Type: | Interventional |
| Study Design: | Allocation: Randomized Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor) Primary Purpose: Treatment |
| Official Title: | Individual and Family Motivational Interviews for Substance Using Truant Teens |
- marijuana use [ Time Frame: 3 month follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Self-report of marijuana use in the prior 30 days
- marijuana use [ Time Frame: 6 month follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Self-report of marijuana use in the prior 30 days
- Risky sexual behavior [ Time Frame: 3 month follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Self-report of risky sexual behavior such as unprotected sex
- Risky sexual behavior [ Time Frame: 6 month follow-up ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Self-report of risky sexual behavior such as unprotected sex
| Estimated Enrollment: | 100 |
| Study Start Date: | August 2010 |
| Estimated Study Completion Date: | January 2013 |
| Estimated Primary Completion Date: | January 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure) |
| Arms | Assigned Interventions |
|---|---|
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Experimental: Family Check-up/Individual MI
Two session motivational intervention to improve parent monitoring and communication with respect to adolescent risk behavior especially substance use plus 2 session Individual Motivational Intervention for the adolescent
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Behavioral: Family Check-up/ Individual MI
The 2-session intervention protocol consists of an individual motivational interview plus the Family Check-Up (Dishion & Kavanagh, 2003), a family based motivational interview. The experimental protocol provides a thorough assessment of both individual and family strengths and weaknesses with respect to substance use prevention and school attendance/performance.
Other Name: (Family Check-up)
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Active Comparator: Psychoeducation
Two sessions of psychoeducation for parents regarding adolescent risk behaviors especially substance use
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Behavioral: Individual and family psychoeducation
Families in PE will return for the same number of visits as the IMI and FCU sessions of the IMI/FCU condition. An interventionist will review a set of educational materials with the parents regarding teen SU use, truancy and risk behaviors and parenting a teenager. A similar set of materials will be reviewed with the adolescent
Other Name: (Psychoed)
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Eligibility| Ages Eligible for Study: | 13 Years to 16 Years |
| Genders Eligible for Study: | Both |
| Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- between the ages of 13-16 at the start of the project and living at home with at least one parent/guardian,
- t- score of 70 or above on one of the diagnostic-oriented scales (internalizing or externalizing problems) on the Child Behavior Checklist (i.e. reach the clinical cut-off),
- the child must report 6 or more incidences of substance use in the last 90 days,
- parental consent and child assent are obtained.
Exclusion Criteria:
- adolescent meets diagnostic criteria for substance dependence suggesting need for more intensive services,
- the family is not able to speak and understand English or Spanish well enough to complete study procedures.
Contacts and Locations| Contact: Anthony Spirito, PhD | 401-863-6623 | anthony_spirito@brown.edu |
| United States, Rhode Island | |
| Brown University | Recruiting |
| Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02912 | |
| Principal Investigator: Anthony Spirito, PhD | |
| Principal Investigator: | Anthony Spirito, PhD | Brown Medicl School |
More Information
No publications provided
| Responsible Party: | Anthony Spirito, Professor, Brown University |
| ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01170026 History of Changes |
| Other Study ID Numbers: | 1 R34 DA0029871 |
| Study First Received: | July 22, 2010 |
| Last Updated: | July 28, 2012 |
| Health Authority: | United States: Institutional Review Board |
Keywords provided by Brown University:
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substance use adolescents intervention truancy sexual risk behavior |
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on October 17, 2012
