NCT01170026

Individual and Family Motivational Interviews for Substance Using Truant Teens

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 69 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 16 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
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.
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

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-08-01
• Primary completion: 2013-01-01
• Completion: 2013-07-01
• First posted: 2010-07-27
• Last updated: 2025-01-15
• Results posted: 2025-01-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States