NCT02191605

Computer-delivered Screening & Brief Intervention for Marijuana Use in Pregnancy

Computer-based Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for Marijuana Use in Pregnancy: Planning a Stage II Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wayne State University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Marijuana is by far the mostly commonly used illicit drug during pregnancy, and prenatal exposure to marijuana can have lasting negative effects. However, current answers to this problem are failing to reach most women who use marijuana while pregnant. This project will develop and begin testing two technology-based, highly practical interventions that could reduce the number of children who are prenatally exposed to marijuana.

Detailed description

There are at present no evidence-based interventions for marijuana use during pregnancy, despite its being by far the most commonly used illicit drug during pregnancy (particularly among African-American women), and despite growing evidence that it may have a range of long-term cognitive and neurobehavioral consequences. This R34 clinical trial planning grant therefore proposes the development and preliminary validation of two high- reach and mutually compatible technology-based interventions for marijuana use during pregnancy. The first, a theory-based, synchronous, and highly interactive computer-delivered brief intervention, will be based on an emerging knowledge base regarding key elements of efficacious technology-delivered interventions. The second intervention, a series of tailored text messages, will build on the rich literature regarding key tailoring elements. These interventions will be developed and refined with input from pregnant women who report active use of marijuana, as well as from health care providers. They will subsequently be tested-alone and in combination-in a pilot randomized trial involving 80 women actively using marijuana during pregnancy. This Stage I pilot work would set the stage for a confirmatory Stage II trial. It would also produce the first high-reach brief interventions for marijuana use during pregnancy. If effective, these approaches could have a substantial population impact on marijuana use among pregnant women, with potential for lifelong improved outcomes for both mother and child.

Conditions

• Marijuana Use
• Pregnancy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	eSBIRT	A single 20 minute interactive computer-delivered intervention designed to promote motivation to change prenatal marijuana use, without presuming the participant to be currently using marijuana while pregnant.
BEHAVIORAL	Tailored texting	Group text messaging software from Trumpia, Inc. will be used to create the tailored text messages that will be sent to participants assigned to this intervention. Text messages will sent after the initial study participation visit until childbirth or participant opts out of receiving them.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-09-30
• Primary completion: 2017-04-20
• Completion: 2017-10-27
• First posted: 2014-07-16
• Last updated: 2018-07-03
• Results posted: 2018-07-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States