Drug Use Prevention Among Girls Through a Mother-Daughter Intervention

NCT00310258 | Completed Phase 3

• 2 other identifiers: girls & drugs5R01DA017721-02
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 2,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study will develop and test drug use prevention strategies for low-income, minority girls. Gender-specific substance use rates, risk and protective factors, and health outcomes highlight the need for interventions aimed at girls. Girls and boys share a number of risk factors, yet some factors are more salient for one gender. Girls and boys may also be affected differently by the same risk factors. Intervention planned for this study emphasizes risk and protective factors that impact girls. Our intervention will build mother-daughter communication and closeness; enhance girls' self-efficacy and body esteem; nurture girls' conflict management, problem-solving, stress reduction, and refusal skills; correct perceived norms; build social supports; and establish patterns of parental monitoring and supervision. We hypothesise that girls who receive GSI will have lower 3-year follow-up rates of substance use than girls who receive no intervention. The study will occur in three phases. In a 12-month preparation phase, we will refine and complete intervention and measurement protocols, recruit subjects and randomly assign girls and mothers to study arms, and pretest girls and mothers. A 12-month implementation phase will initiate field operations of the clinical trial, including intervention delivery, process data collection, and posttests. Follow-up in the last 36 months will involve longitudinal measurements of girls and mothers, booster session development and delivery, and data analyses.

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Scores on substance use behavior at posttest, and annually for 3 years after posttest.

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• scores on mediating variables at posttest, and annually for 3 years after posttest.

• closeness with mother

• coping skills

• refusal skills

• depression (mood)

Interventions

Drug use prevention intervention BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 11 Years - 13 Years
• Sex: female
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• girls ages 11 to 13 years old at pretest and their mothers who have access to a private computer

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA): lead

Study Sites (1)

Columbia University School of Social Work

New York, New York, 10027, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Schinke S, Di Noia J, Schwinn T, Cole K. Drug abuse risk and protective factors among black urban adolescent girls: a group-randomized trial of computer-delivered mother-daughter intervention. Psychol Addict Behav. 2006 Dec;20(4):496-500. doi: 10.1037/0893-164X.20.4.496.

  PMID: 17176186 RESULT

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Adolescent Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Behavior

Study Officials

• Steven Schinke, Ph.D.

  Columbia University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: phase 3
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: NIH

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 30, 2006
• First Posted: April 3, 2006
• Study Start: April 1, 2005
• Study Completion: February 1, 2006
• Last Updated: January 11, 2017

Record last verified: 2006-03

Locations

US (1)