A Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Abuse Among Adolescent Girls

Columbia University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drug Abuse Prevention

Treatments: Behavioral: RealTeen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01813123

AAAJ3409

R01DA031782 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is designed to develop and test a gender-specific, web-based drug abuse prevention program. Study participants will be adolescent girls aged 13 and 14 years who will complete all measures online. Randomly assigned girls will also interact online with a skills-based program and subsequent annual booster sessions.

The study's primary hypothesis is that rates of 30-day alcohol and drug use will be lower among girls assigned to receive the intervention.

Enrollment: 788 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 13 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• resident of USA
• speaks English
• have private computer with Internet

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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788 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

RealTeen

Treatment:

Behavioral: RealTeen