NCT00280228

Home Based Treatment for Drug Use in Early Adolescents

Home-based Behavioral Therapy (HBT): Psychosocial Intervention Project for Early Adolescents With Pre- or Early Substance Use Disorder: Phase II

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 11 Years – 14 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will compare two programs to see if they are helpful in preventing the use of substances in adolescents with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), or conduct disorder (CD). One of the programs involves working with adolescents and their parent(s) in their home. The other program involves working with adolescents and their parent(s) in an office setting.

Detailed description

In this study phase, 36 patients with a disruptive behavior disorder (DBD - i.e., attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder) and use or abuse of one or more substances will be randomly assigned to treatment using either a standard treatment for DBDs in this age group or the newly developed HBT treatment. Treatment outcomes for the 24 patients assigned to receive HBT will then be compared to outcomes for the 12 patients assigned to receive standard DBD treatment. Specific aims of Phase II include: 1. finalizing the HBT treatment manual and measures of treatment fidelity, therapist competence, and treatment satisfaction; 2. generating estimates of treatment effect sizes for substance use, disruptive behavior, and functional status outcomes, as pilot data for a larger efficacy study, and 3. comparing treatment satisfaction for the two treatment groups. We hypothesize that HBT will lead to significantly lower rates of disruptive behaviors, substance use, and SUDs than with standard treatment, as well as greater concomitant improvements in impairment.

Conditions

• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• Conduct Disorder
• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Adolescent Skills Parent Management Parent-Adol Negotiation	Acute treatment for 12 weeks followed by three monthly booster sessions.
BEHAVIORAL	Treatment as Usual	Standard outpatient treatment for behavioral problems and substance use

Timeline

• Start date: 2006-01-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-05-01
• First posted: 2006-01-20
• Last updated: 2011-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States