Home-Based Program to Help Parents of Drug Abusing Adolescents
Parents as Interventionists for Moderate Drug Abusing Adolescents
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interventional
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1 country
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Brief Summary
This project is aimed at parents with a teenager who is already starting to use drugs. The study will test a new, innovative version of a brief intervention. This program will be home based rather than implemented by a counselor in a clinical setting. The stage I activities will involve manual development, parent training development, and a small feasibility study; Stage II involves an efficacy study. Two samples, 110 families each, will participate in the trial. Families will be assigned to either an intervention or control condition. The investigators hypothesize that the home-based intervention will be superior to the control condition. In addition, the investigators expect response to the intervention by the adolescent to be mediated by motivation, cognitions, problem solving, peer drug use, parenting skills and parent self-efficacy.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Sep 2011
Longer than P75 for not_applicable
1 active site
Health score is calculated from publicly available data and should be used for screening purposes only.
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
September 1, 2011
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
April 7, 2012
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
May 3, 2012
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
April 1, 2016
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
April 1, 2016
CompletedMarch 28, 2023
March 1, 2023
4.6 years
April 7, 2012
March 27, 2023
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (3)
Adolescent Substance Use
Adolescent participants will complete the Timeline Follow Back in order to assess days of drug use.
Changes from Baseline at 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline
Adolescent Drug Use Consequences
The adolescent participant will complete the Personal Consequences Scale in order to measure their drug use consequences.
Changes from Baseline at 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline
DSM-IV Substance Use Diagnosis
The Adolescent Diagnostic Interview (ADI) will be used to determine a diagnosis.
Changes from Baseline at 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline
Secondary Outcomes (5)
Adolescent Mental Health
Baseline and 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline
Adolescent Treatment History
Baseline and 3-, 6-, and 12- months post-baseline
Program Acceptability
Parent Training (average of 2 weeks post-baseline) and Post-Session 3 (average of 6 weeks after the parent training)
Program Satisfaction
Post-Session 3 (average of 6 weeks after the parent training)
Training Fidelity
Parent Training (average of 2 weeks post-baseline)
Study Arms (2)
Home-Based Intervention
EXPERIMENTALParents will receive a 1-session training on how to deliver a 3-session intervention across a 3-week period. The intervention program begins with a 3 and a half hour training session delivered by the staff Trainer to the participating parent. At the conclusion of training, the parent will be given the intervention manual and supplemental materials. The trainer will phone the parent shortly before session 1, in between each intervention session, and after the third intervention (four phone calls total) to review the objectives and tasks associated with that week's intervention session and to help prepare for the coming session. At the final phone call between the parent and trainer (after the third week), the trainer will deliver to the parent the follow-up resources.
Educational Group
ACTIVE COMPARATORParents will receive a 2-hour, education-only psychoeducational curriculum (no parent-led intervention with their teen will occur.
Interventions
Parents will be trained through a 3 1/2-hour series on providing a 3-session drug and alcohol intervention program to their adolescent. The parent-led intervention will require parents to meet with their adolescent and work together to help strengthen family cohesiveness, enhance communication, and promote healthy life choices.
Printed fact sheets will be delivered to parents in a single two-hour session. These fact sheets will provide general drug-related information from the public domain (e.g., substance use trends and well-known dangers of substance involvement), and focus on communication approaches and talking points when discussing substance use with their adolescent (e.g., why adolescents use; how the media may influence attitudes about substances).
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if:
- Referral of the adolescent to the Minneapolis metro area participating sites.
- Both the parent and teen consent to participate.
You may not qualify if:
- Current developmental disorder or learning disorder.
- current or past history of psychosis, or any psychiatric or other condition that may interfere with ongoing participation in the intervention.
- Suicidal ideation or otherwise judged to be at risk to self or others
- Unstable or uncontrolled medical illnesses which may interfere with participation in the study.
- Inability to understand the study procedures or otherwise give informed assent for participation.
- Failure by the parent to give informed consent for the adolescent.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
- Treatment Research Institutelead
- University of Minnesotacollaborator
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)collaborator
Study Sites (1)
University of Minnesota Medical School, Department of Psychiatry
Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55454, United States
Related Publications (1)
Botzet AM, Dittel C, Birkeland R, Lee S, Grabowski J, Winters KC. Parents as interventionists: Addressing adolescent substance use. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2019 Apr;99:124-133. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2019.01.015. Epub 2019 Jan 23.
PMID: 30797384DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Ken Winters, Ph.D.
Treatment Research Institute and University of Minnesota
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NON RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- SINGLE
- Who Masked
- OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- PARALLEL
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- SPONSOR
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
April 7, 2012
First Posted
May 3, 2012
Study Start
September 1, 2011
Primary Completion
April 1, 2016
Study Completion
April 1, 2016
Last Updated
March 28, 2023
Record last verified: 2023-03