NCT04200339

Adolescent SCreening To Help Eliminate Misuse

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 810 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 17 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The specific aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of three substance use screening instruments (S2BI, BSTAD, and TAPS Tool) against a criterion standard of Diagnostic Statistical Manual - 5 (DSM-5) substance use disorder (SUD) diagnoses in an adolescent population.

Detailed description

This study seeks to evaluate the psychometric properties of three substance use screening and brief assessment tools for adolescents against criterion standard of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) substance use disorder diagnoses in a population of adolescents who receives care at a participating primary care practice; or, for an initial evaluation at a substance use disorders program for youth. The three tools to be tested are the Brief Screener for Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs (BSTAD); Screening to Brief Intervention (S2BI) screening tool; and the Tobacco, Alcohol, Prescription medications, and other Substance (TAPS) Tool. BSTAD and S2BI were developed specifically for use with adolescents and each has been validated in a single trial. These tools use past-year "frequency of use" questions to determine risk level for a substance use disorder. The TAPS tool includes both screening and brief assessments and while it has been studied more extensively in adult primary care patients, its validity with adolescents is not known. For youth, alcohol, marijuana and tobacco use, and particularly early initiation, are associated with greater risk of substance use disorders, use of illicit drugs, misuse of opioids, and opioid use disorders. Thus, identifying and addressing substance use early is an important form of prevention that can be delivered in medical care settings for this age group.

Conditions

• Substance Use

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-07-21
• Primary completion: 2022-02-25
• Completion: 2022-02-25
• First posted: 2019-12-16
• Last updated: 2022-03-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States