NCT04637815

A Social Network AOD Intervention for Homeless Youth Transitioning to Housing

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: RAND · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This project will pilot test a computer-assisted social network intervention, using motivational interviewing techniques, that can help case managers work with formerly homeless young adults who recently transitioned to supportive housing to reduce substance use and increase permanent supportive connections during this critical transitional period.

Detailed description

The goal of this study is to conduct a pilot evaluation of a motivational network intervention (MNI) to reduce substance use and strengthen supportive connections for recently homeless 18-25 year-olds who have transitioned to a housing program. The goal of this pilot study is to evaluate, through a small randomized controlled trial (Stage 1b), the added benefit of incorporating the MNI into case management for transitional age youth (TAY) residents of housing programs. We hypothesized that residents receiving the MNI as part of case management would show more positive changes in their substance use behaviors and the composition and structure of their personal networks (i.e., greater proportion of network members who are low-risk) over a 3-month follow-up period compared to residents receiving usual case management only.

Conditions

• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Motivational Network Intervention	Every 2 weeks, residents attend meetings with their case manager. These meetings are customized to the needs of the resident at the time of the meeting. Participants randomized into the Motivational Network Intervention arm are offered an additional discussion about their social networks. Case managers ask participants to answer a series of standardized questions about people they know. After these questions are answered, case managers show participants a series of images representing these answers. While showing these images, case mangers engage the participant in discussions about what they notice using Motivational Interviewing techniques. The goal is to discuss what the participant wants to change and state strategies about achieving these changes.
OTHER	Usual Care	Residents attend regular case management meetings with their case managers as a condition of their residency in the housing program. These sessions are customized do the needs of the resident at the time of the meeting. Participants randomized into the usual care arm will be offered these sessions every 2 weeks.

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-09
• Primary completion: 2023-09-01
• Completion: 2023-09-01
• First posted: 2020-11-20
• Last updated: 2024-10-22
• Results posted: 2024-10-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States