Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults
MedPAC Hotline: A Medical Peer Addiction Counselling Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults
1 other identifier
interventional
200
1 country
1
Brief Summary
Aim: Providing peer counselling service delivered by student counsellors with a medical background via a hotline to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below. Objectives: i. To raise anti-drug awareness of young people in general and identify high-risk/hidden drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below in Hong Kong; and ii. To train university students with a medical background as peer counsellors; and iii. To provide drug abuse hotline service by students with a medical background as peer counsellors to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below, and other people who call for help, including drug abusers' family members, friends, and professionals; and iv. To improve the drug-abusing youth and young adult' knowledge about the hazard of drug abuse, negative attitude, and perception towards the drug abuse through the telephone peer counselling service provided by students with medical background; and v. To increase the intention to quit and the help-seeking behavior among the drug-abusing youth and young adult; vi. To increase reduction rate and abstinence rate from drug abuse, and decrease the relapse rate among drug-abusing youth and young adult through the telephone peer counseling service.
Trial Health
Trial Health Score
Automated assessment based on enrollment pace, timeline, and geographic reach
participants targeted
Target at P75+ for not_applicable
Started Aug 2020
Typical duration for not_applicable
1 active site
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
First Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
June 15, 2020
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
July 8, 2020
CompletedStudy Start
First participant enrolled
August 26, 2020
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
August 1, 2023
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
August 1, 2023
CompletedNovember 4, 2020
July 1, 2020
2.9 years
June 15, 2020
November 2, 2020
Conditions
Keywords
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Change in drug consumption at 12-month follow-up
Drug abuser's drug consumption is measured at 12-month follow-up. A questionnaire asking the frequency of drug use in the past 30 days will be used for assessing the self-reported change in drug consumption.
Baseline and 12 months
Secondary Outcomes (9)
30 days self-reported drug abstinence at 6-month and 12-month follow-up
Baseline, 6 months and 12 months
Change in drug consumption at 6-month follow-up
Baseline and 6 months
Change in relapse risk among the quitters
Baseline and 12 months
Change of the contemplation stage
Baseline, 6 months and 12 months
Changes of the perceived treatment needs and motivation towards solving the problem of drug abuse
Baseline, 6 months and 12 months
- +4 more secondary outcomes
Study Arms (1)
Peer-led counselling
OTHER1. About 50 university students trained as peer telephone counsellors through a structured training programme. 2. About 200 Drug-abusing youth and young adults received telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI)
Interventions
About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. A pre and post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire will be conducted before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge and attitudes. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure participants' perception of the quality of the training programme. Drug-abusing youth and young adults will receive telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to rehabilitate from drug abuse. The peer counsellors will give referral advice if the youth and young adult needs appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services. The drug abusers will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups will be invited to have a urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence.
Eligibility Criteria
You may not qualify if:
- Those who are psychologically or physically unable to communicate will be excluded.
Contact the study team to confirm eligibility.
Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (1)
The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Related Publications (1)
Xia W, Li HCW, Liang T, Luo Y, Ho LLK, Cheung AT, Song P. Structured online training for university students to deliver peer-led addiction counselling for young drug abusers in China: Effect on improving knowledge, attitude, confidence, and skills. Patient Educ Couns. 2022 Apr;105(4):1009-1017. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.07.038. Epub 2021 Jul 24.
PMID: 34334262DERIVED
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Study Officials
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
Ho Cheung William Li, PhD
The University of Hong Kong
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- not applicable
- Allocation
- NA
- Masking
- NONE
- Purpose
- HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
- Intervention Model
- SINGLE GROUP
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- Associate Professor
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
June 15, 2020
First Posted
July 8, 2020
Study Start
August 26, 2020
Primary Completion
August 1, 2023
Study Completion
August 1, 2023
Last Updated
November 4, 2020
Record last verified: 2020-07
Data Sharing
- IPD Sharing
- Will share
- Time Frame
- After the project is completed and the results of the project have been published.
- Access Criteria
- Request could be sent to Principal Investigator (william3@hku.hk)
The relevant anonymized patient-level data, full dataset, technical appendix, and statistical code are available on reasonable request. The approval from the Principal Investigator for the purpose of data use is required.