Options for Navigating Talking About Risk and Adolescent Choices (ON-TRAC)

Lifespan

Status: Begins enrollment this month

Conditions: Substance Use; Risk Reduction Behavior; Substance Use (Drugs, Alcohol); Emotion Regulation; Risk Reduction; Substance Use Risk

Treatments: Behavioral: ON-TRAC

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06754527

R61DA059785 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

ON-TRAC (unknown Protocol ID)

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will examine the effectiveness of ON-TRAC (Options for Navigating Talking about Risk and Adolescent Choices), which is an online substance use prevention program that also teaches emotion regulation skills. 200 adolescents, 12-15 years of age, will be randomized to ON-TRAC or a wait list comparison group (who will be offered the intervention at the end of their study participation) to determine impact on substance use, emotion regulation abilities, mental health symptoms, and other risk behavior outcomes.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 15 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Contact with the Rhode Island child welfare system
• Caregiver who is a parent/guardian of a child who experienced maltreatment
• Caregiver who speaks English or Spanish
• Caregiver who does not have developmental delays
• Adolescent who is between 12-15 years of age
• Adolescent who is fluent in English
• Adolescent who has active follow-up with the Rhode Island child welfare system due to an indicated finding of abuse or neglect in the past year

Exclusion criteria

• Adolescent who cannot read at a 4th grade level
• Adolescent who has a sibling who has participated in the program
• Adolescent who has developmental delays
• Adolescent who lacks parental consent for the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 2 patient groups

ON-TRAC Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Web-based emotion regulation and substance use intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: ON-TRAC

Waitlist Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Control participants are assessed on the same schedule as the treatment condition and offered the intervention after the 8-month follow-up