Web-Based Adolescent Motivational Enhancement Study (Web-AME)

Seattle Children's Healthcare System

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Care Services Quality of Care; Alcohol Risk Behaviors

Treatments: Behavioral: Check Yourself App with Feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT02584621

1R21AA023050-01A1 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

3679948

Details and patient eligibility

About

The proposed study is a randomized controlled trial that compares the effectiveness of an electronic personalized health screening app incorporating motivational feedback (i.e. "Check Yourself") to usual care among moderate to high risk alcohol users. The purpose of this study is to determine whether Check Yourself is more effective than usual care in reducing alcohol consumption and binge drinking and improving quality of care among adolescents receiving school-based health clinic services.

Enrollment: 148 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 13 to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Eligible individuals will be 13-18 years old who are able to read and comprehend English.
• Participants who indicate alcohol use consistent with moderate to high risk on the Check Yourself App.

Exclusion criteria

Individuals will be excluded from the study if:

• They do not meet age requirements
• Do not have a study visit at a participating school-based health clinic
• Lack the means to complete follow-up interviews (i.e. have neither telephone or internet access)
• Are not able to read or comprehend English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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148 participants in 2 patient groups

Check Yourself App With Feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Participants complete Check Yourself, an electronic health screening app and receive personalized, motivational feedback on their health behaviors prior to their visit with their health provider. Key components of Check Yourself include the provision of age normative feedback, goal setting strategies, and strategies to highlight discrepancies. Health providers receive a summary report of health risk behaviors from Check Yourself prior to the visit.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Check Yourself App with Feedback

Usual Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Participants are asked to complete health risk screening questions on a tablet computer. No personalized feedback is provided to adolescents and primary care providers do not receive a summary report of the adolescent's health risk behaviors.