NCT04400227

Preventing Youth Substance Use With Family Talk

Pilot Study of Family Talk to Prevent Youth Substance Use

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Boston Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Family Talk, an evidence-based parent-youth dyadic intervention, is a promising approach to improving substance use outcomes for high-risk families, and its structure lends itself to delivery by existing personnel within an Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) model of care. The investigators propose a single-arm pilot study with 25 parent-youth dyads through which a rapid cycle performance improvement approach will be employed to adapt and optimize the content and delivery of the embedded Family Talk prevention strategy. The investigators will field-test relevant baseline and outcome measures and will use qualitative methodology to identify key modifications to the intervention and generate hypotheses for how the prevention strategy may impact youth and family outcomes and prevent youth substance use. Information from this study will inform a subsequent pilot randomized controlled trial of the intervention to prevent substance use for youth whose parents are in recovery from SUD (substance use disorder).

Conditions

• Substance Use Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Family Talk	Family Talk is an evidence-based, parent-youth dyadic approach that uses psychoeducation and skills building to help families make meaning of a parent's adversity, increase resilience, and improve family functioning. The Family Talk model comprises two components: the first involves a series of cognitive-behavioral techniques to bolster problem solving and communication skills among family members; the second involves a facilitated family meeting to develop a shared narrative for discussing each family member's experience of the parent's illness.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-07-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-01
• Completion: 2023-06-01
• First posted: 2020-05-22
• Last updated: 2022-07-13