REAL Parenting Alcohol and Substance Use App

NCT03932097 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 11690
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 306
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

High school students' alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana use are major public health problems. Among the many consequences of these risky behaviors are impaired driving and impaired passenger fatalities as well as increased health risks. Both school administrators and parents have requested parent-based interventions (PBIs)for the general high school population that include content on alcohol, nicotine and marijuana use. In addition, digital materials are needed for the "on-the-go" parent. The proposed research will address this omission, curb the alarming trends noted above, and move the field forward by conducting a randomized controlled trial testing a modified, digital version of the Parent Handbook for the all high school students that includes additional content for parents to have broader discussions about combined alcohol nicotine and marijuana use alone (referred to as REAL Parenting). Parent-teen dyads will be invited to participate and complete baseline assessment and parents will receive the REAL Parenting or active control materials shortly afterwards. This will allow an examination of the impact of the RP on alcohol use, and associated consequences and sustained effects across the follow-up period.

Conditions

Underage Drinking; Alcohol Use, Underage

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Alcohol Use

  A standard drink definition will be provided: a standard drink consists of 12 oz. beer or wine cooler, 8.5 oz. of malt liquor, 4 oz. of wine, 3.5 oz. fortified wine, or 1.5 oz. of hard liquor. Typical weekly drinking: participants will respond to the Daily Drinking Questionnaire(DDQ; Collins et al., 1985) to indicate number of drinks consumed on each day of a typical week within the past six months. Participants will report maximum number of drinks consumed on an occasion within the past month and number of hours spent drinking on that occasion using the Quantity/Frequency/Peak questionnaire (QFP; Dimeff et al., 1999; Marlatt et al., 1998). Drunkenness will be assessed by asking how many times in the past month participants have gotten drunk, or very high from alcohol using a 6-point scale: (0) never to (5) 9 or more. Heavy episodic drinking will be measured for females and males separately, asking for number of times they?ve had 4/5, respectively, drinks in a row within two hours.

  Project years 1-2

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Marijuana Use

  Project years 1-2

• Combined Use

  Project years 1-2

• Consequences of Alcohol Use

  Project years 1-2

• Nicotine Use

  Project years 1-2

Other Outcomes (5)

• Alcohol Motives

  Project years 1-2

• Alcohol Expectancies

  Project years 1-2

• Alcohol Willingness

  Project years 1-2

Study Arms (2)

REAL Parenting

EXPERIMENTAL

REAL Parenting digital intervention emphasizing parent-teen/young adult communication on drinking/risks of drinking/risks of alcohol abuse, with the addition of a communication component on the risks of nicotine and marijuana use, with the goal of reducing alcohol, nicotine and marijuana use in college students.

Behavioral: REAL Parenting

Active Control Materials

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

NIAAA materials on underage drinking for parents

Other: Active Control Materials

Interventions

REAL Parenting BEHAVIORAL

REAL Parenting digital intervention emphasizing parent-teen/young adult communication on drinking/risks of drinking/risks of alcohol abuse, with the addition of a communication component on the risks of nicotine and marijuana use, with the goal of reducing alcohol, nicotine and marijuana use in college students.

REAL Parenting

Active Control Materials OTHER

NIAAA materials on underage drinking for parents

Active Control Materials

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 15 Years - 18 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• High school students (ages 15-18) who may be at risk for alcohol, marijuana and nicotine use and abuse, and whose parent/guardian is willing to participate in the proposed study as part of a parent/student dyad.
• High school students ages 15-18 with their parents/guardians; English fluency; Internet access; at least one parent/guardian fluent in English and with Internet access

You may not qualify if:

• Not high school aged (not ages 15-18)
• Parent/guardian was not willing to participate
• Does not have English fluency;
• Does not have access to Internet access

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Real Prevention, LLC: lead

Study Sites (1)

REAL Prevention, LLC

Clifton, New Jersey, 07013, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Underage Drinking

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Adolescent Behavior; Behavior; Alcohol Drinking; Drinking Behavior

Study Officials

• Michael Hecht

  REAL Prevention

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: INDUSTRY
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: President

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: April 25, 2019
• First Posted: April 30, 2019
• Study Start: January 15, 2021
• Primary Completion: January 15, 2022
• Study Completion: May 31, 2022
• Last Updated: May 25, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-05

Locations

US (1)