NCT07070414

Substance Use in Assault-Injured Young Adults

Alcohol and Cannabis Use Among Assault-Injured Emerging Adults

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 25 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to improve a short motivational conversation to better help young adults who were injured in assaults and also use alcohol or cannabis. Researchers will gather both interview and survey data from young adults who came to the emergency department after an assault and currently use alcohol or cannabis. Guided by a theory about risky behaviors, the study will focus on how confident young people feel about making changes to their alcohol and cannabis use, and how their friends and family influence their alcohol and cannabis use and involvement in injuries from assault. The team will follow a step-by-step process used by the NIH to adapt and test the improved motivational conversation in the emergency department.

Detailed description

Aim 1: Quantitatively and qualitatively assess self-efficacy, perceived peer and familial norms, and motivation to reduce alcohol and/or cannabis use and engage in treatment referral, among assault-injured emerging adults. AIM 2: Adapt the BNI for use among assault-injured emerging adults with alcohol and/or cannabis misuse in the ED. AIM 3: Determine the feasibility and acceptability of an adapted BNI among assault-injured emerging adults with alcohol and/or cannabis misuse presenting to the ED through a randomized pilot trial comparing those who have received the adapted BNI and treatment referrals to a referrals-only control group. The focus of this registration is the randomized pilot in Aim 3. Anticipated start dates will be reflected in the clinical trial component in Aim 3.

Conditions

• Alcohol Misuse
• Cannabis Misuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief Negotiation Interview intervention (BNI) (adapted)	A brief motivational interview designed to increase motivation to reduce alcohol and/or cannabis use and engagement in treatment referral.

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-08-01
• Primary completion: 2028-02-01
• Completion: 2028-02-01
• First posted: 2025-07-17
• Last updated: 2025-11-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States