NCT03786224

Pilot Trial of Contingency Management for Long-Term Cannabis Abstinence

Pilot Trial on the Efficacy of Contingency Management for Six Months of Cannabis Abstinence Among Adolescents

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is a critically important first-of-its-kind investigation of the potential research utility of using contingency management to examine long-term changes in cannabis use with six months of abstinence. These pilot data will inform a later trial which will focus on testing the longitudinal relationships between adolescent cognition and cannabis use, questions of high and growing public health significance given adolescents' increased access to cannabis with legalization.

Conditions

• Cannabis Use
• Adolescent Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Contingency Management	Six months of cannabis abstinence will be incentivized using a standard contingency management approach involving an escalating schedule of payment for abstinence and attendance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-07-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-06
• Completion: 2019-12-06
• First posted: 2018-12-24
• Last updated: 2024-08-02
• Results posted: 2024-08-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States