Trial of Computerized SBI to Reduce Teen Alcohol Use

Boston Children's Hospital

Status and phase: Withdrawn; Phase 1

Conditions: Nicotine Dependence; Cannabis Abuse; Alcohol Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: c-ASBI

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01784627

JK R01 PA-12-031

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to test the effectiveness of a computer-facilitated alcohol screening and brief intervention (c-ASBI) system for 12- to 18-year-old primary care patients in a multi-site, randomized comparative effectiveness trial. The investigators hypothesize that, among 12- to 18-year olds patients coming for annual well-care, those receiving c-ASBI will have lower rates of any alcohol use at 3-, 6-, and 12-month follow-ups compared to Treatment As Usual (TAU).

Full description

The Specific Aims are to 1) Test the effects of c-ASBI on any alcohol use; 2) Test the effects of c-ASBI separately as a prevention, therapeutic, and risk-reduction intervention; 3) Test the effects of c-ASBI separately on cannabis and tobacco use; explore its effects on other drug use; and 4) Assess potential moderators (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity, substance use history +/-, parent/sibling/peer substance use), mediators (e.g., Youth to Provider Connectedness,20 perceived harmfulness of alcohol and drug use), and explore c-ASBI's mechanism of action.

Sex: All

Ages: 9 to 20 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Arriving for well or non-emergent care at one of participating study sites
• Have an email address
• Have internet address

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: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 2 patient groups

Treatment at Usual

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive treatment as usual (TAU) from their provider, which may or may not include screening and brief advice regarding alcohol use.

c-ASBI

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in this group will receive the computerized alcohol screening and brief intervention (c-ASBI).

Treatment:

Behavioral: c-ASBI