NCT03655574

Substance Use Interventions for Truant Adolescents

Brief Individual and Parent Interventions for Substance Use in Truant Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 110 (actual)
• Sponsor: Brown University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study evaluates a brief motivation-building intervention for parents and teens to reduce truancy and substance use. It is hypothesized that the motivational intervention will result in better outcomes compared to an education-only intervention.

Detailed description

Adolescents who use marijuana and are truant from school are a high-risk population with increased likelihood of substance use disorders, criminal justice involvement, and long-term impairments in vocational, family, and peer domains. This study will test a theory-driven intervention for early adolescent marijuana using, truant youth identified through Rhode Island Truancy and Family Courts. Adolescents will be randomly assigned to one of the 2 conditions: a motivational interview versus psychoeducation.

Conditions

• Adolescent Problem Behavior
• Truancy; Unsocialized
• Marijuana Abuse
• Truancy; Socialized
• Substance Abuse
• Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Motivational + Family Check-up (MET+FCU)	In the MET session, motivational strategies of individualized normative feedback, examining decisional balance, and providing information/advice will be used to support goals for behavior change and to examine barriers to changes. There are four specific phases of the FCU session: (1) Self-assessment: Parents are asked if they learned anything about their family from participating in the assessment. (2) Support and clarification: The interviewer supports the parent's self-assessment efforts, assesses their level of understanding, and clarifies issues within the family. (3) Feedback: A summary form of the assessment is reviewed. (4) Action Plan: Throughout the session, the counselor works with the parent to develop a brief, written Action Plan about communication and monitoring.
OTHER	Psychoeducation	Psychoeducation about substances is provided to teens and parents.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2023-10-30
• Completion: 2024-04-30
• First posted: 2018-08-31
• Last updated: 2024-06-03

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States