Substance Use Screening to Encourage Behavior Change Among Young People in Primary Care

NCT04146714 | Not Yet Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: YP-HEALTH
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 840
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study evaluates whether completing a short screening questionnaire about health behaviours in the waiting room before a primary care consultation decreases excessive substance use in young people aged 14 to 24 years. Young people consulting a primary care physician will randomly receive either a questionnaire about substance use or a questionnaire about physical activity. They will be contacted again 3, 6 and 12 months later and asked to complete a questionnaire about substance use. The proportion of young people with excessive substance use in each group will be compared. The researchers hypothesise that at three months this proportion will be lower in the group of young people having completed the initial questionnaire about substance use when compared to the group having completed the questionnaire about physical activity.

Conditions

Substance Use; Binge Drinking; Cannabis Use; Adolescent Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Proportion of patients reporting one or more episodes of binge drinking in the past 30 days.

  Patient self-report on follow-up telephone questionnaire. Binge drinking is defined as the consumption of five or more standard drinks in one occasion.

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (11)

• Proportion of patients reporting smoking one or more cannabis joints per week in the last 30 days.

  3 months

• Proportion of patients reporting smoking one or more cannabis joints per week in the last 30 days.

  6 months

• Proportion of patients reporting smoking one or more cannabis joints per week in the last 30 days.

  12 months

• Proportion of patients reporting smoking at least one cigarette per day in the last 30 days.

  3 months

• Proportion of patients reporting smoking at least one cigarette per day in the last 30 days.

  6 months

Study Arms (2)

Substance use screening

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants complete a substance use questionnaire (=intervention).

Other: Substance use questionnaire

Physical activity screening

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

Participants complete a physical activity questionnaire (=control).

Other: Physical activity questionnaire

Interventions

Substance use questionnaire OTHER

Screening questionnaire about substance use based on the Detection of Alcohol and Drug Problems in Adolescents (DEP-ADO) survey.

Substance use screening

Physical activity questionnaire OTHER

Screening questionnaire about physical activity, based on the short version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ).

Physical activity screening

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 14 Years - 24 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• \- Patients aged 14 to 24 years consulting at the participating primary care practice for any motive.

You may not qualify if:

• Acute illness requiring immediate attention of the physician
• Severe mental health conditions requiring treatment in a specialized setting
• Young person not consulting as a patient at the practice (e.g. accompanying friend or partner)
• Inability to read the trial information in French or to provide independent consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Prof. Dagmar M. Haller: lead

Study Sites (1)

University Institute for Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

Geneva, Switzerland

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Substance-Related Disorders; Binge Drinking; Adolescent Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders; Alcohol-Related Disorders; Alcohol Drinking; Drinking Behavior; Behavior

Study Officials

• Dagmar M Haller, MD,PhD

  Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Dagmar M Haller, MD, PhD

CONTACT

+41 22 379 50 61; dagmar.haller-hester@unige.ch

Eva Pfarrwaller, MD

CONTACT

+41 22 379 43 90; eva.pfarrwaller@unige.ch

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Masking Details: Participants: Although they cannot be masked to the content of the intervention (questionnaire), they are only informed that the study is about health behaviours in general and not specifically about substance use. Thus, they are masked as to whether they are in the intervention or control group.
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 28, 2019
• First Posted: October 31, 2019
• Study Start: January 1, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Last Updated: May 22, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-05

Locations

CH (1)