Pilot Test of Computerized MET to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol Use

Boston Children's Hospital

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Alcohol Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: cASBI; Behavioral: cASBI+cMET

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01796158

JKR34_PA-13-078

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to conduct a pilot study evaluating feasibility, acceptability, and estimating the effect size of a new computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET) intervention for alcohol-involved adolescent primary care patients.

Full description

The goal of this project is to conduct a pilot study evaluating feasibility, acceptability, and estimating the effect size of a new computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET) intervention for alcohol-involved adolescent primary care patients. The investigators hypothesize that 1) cMET, when added to Computerized Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention (cASBI), (cASBI+cMET) will be feasible and acceptable when used in primary care; and 2) 12- to 18-yr old patients receiving cASBI+cMET will have lower rates of any alcohol use, days of alcohol use, drinks per drinking day, and days of heavy episodic drinking, than cASBI alone.

Sex: All

Ages: 12 to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• any alcohol use days in the past 90 days
• have an email address and internet access at home, school, or library

Exclusion criteria

• unable to read or understand English
• living away at college at the time of the recruitment visit
• not available for computer/telephone follow-ups
• judged by the provider to be medically or emotionally unstable at time of visit

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

cASBI+cMET

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will complete the computerized alcohol screening and brief intervention (cASBI)protocol at the time of an office visit and also complete the 2-session computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy intervention (cMET).

Treatment:

Behavioral: cASBI+cMET

Behavioral: cASBI

cASBI

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will complete the computerized screening and brief intervention protocol at the time of a primary care office visit.

Treatment:

Behavioral: cASBI