Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice to Reduce Teen Drinking - Full Text View

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Children's Hospital Boston Cambridge Health Alliance Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Fallon Clinic Tufts Medical Center University of Vermont
Information provided by:	Children's Hospital Boston
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00849589

Purpose

The goal of this project is to adapt a computerized Screening and Brief Advice (SBA) protocol that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing underage drinking among adolescent primary care patients and then to test it in a multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Condition	Intervention
Underage Drinking Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors	Behavioral: Computerized screening and brief physician advice Behavioral: Computerized SBA with technological extenders

Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Screening, Randomized, Open Label, Parallel Assignment, Efficacy Study
Official Title:	Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice to Reduce Teen Drinking

Further study details as provided by Children's Hospital Boston:

Primary Outcome Measures:

Initiation of underage drinking [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3-months, 6-months, 12-months ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:

Cessation of underage drinking [ Time Frame: Baseline, 3-months, 6-months, 12-monts ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment:	3100
Study Start Date:	January 2010
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2014
Estimated Primary Completion Date:	January 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
1: No Intervention Treatment as Usual (TAU)
2: Experimental Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice (SBA)	Behavioral: Computerized screening and brief physician advice Participants complete screening for alcohol use and other health risk behaviors on the computer, receive some related health information on the computer, and meet with a primary care provider for a short discussion of health risk behaviors
3: Experimental Computerized screening and brief physician advice with technological extenders (SBA/TE)	Behavioral: Computerized SBA with technological extenders Participants complete screening for alcohol use and other health risk behaviors on the computer, receive some related health information on the computer, and meet with a primary care provider for a short discussion of health risk behaviors. In addition, the provider sends them a brief email or text message at 4 months and 9 months after study entry to reinforce the brief advice.

Detailed Description:

The specific aims of the proposed multisite RCT are:

To establish the efficacy of the computerized SBA protocol on alcohol use, on DWI/RWID, and other alcohol-related health risk behaviors;
To test the effect of Technological Extenders (TE) on prolonging the beneficial effects of the SBA protocol;
To identify moderators, mediators, and optimal responders to the SBA/TE interventions;
To examine the association between cessation of underage drinking and other health-risk behaviors in an adolescent primary care sample.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	12 Years to 21 Years
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	Yes

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

12-21 years old
patients arriving for routine medical care
provide informed assent (for those <18) or informed consent (for those 18-21)

Exclusion Criteria:

medically or psychologically unstable at time of visit
receiving behavioral health services
cannot read or understand English at a 6th grade reading level
unavailable for follow-up assessments

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00849589

Contacts

Contact: John R. Knight, MD	617-355-5433	john.knight@childrens.harvard.edu
Contact: Shari Van Hook, MPH	617-355-5433	shari.vanhook@childrens.harvard.edu

Locations

United States, Massachusetts
Children's Hospital Boston
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

Sponsors and Collaborators

Children's Hospital Boston

Cambridge Health Alliance

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

Fallon Clinic

Tufts Medical Center

University of Vermont

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

John R. Knight, MD

Children's Hospital Boston

More Information

Additional Information:

Center for Adolescent Substance Abuse Research This link exits the ClinicalTrials.gov site

No publications provided

Responsible Party:	Children's Hospital Boston ( Dr. John R. Knight )
Study ID Numbers:	PA-07-406
Study First Received:	February 23, 2009
Last Updated:	August 20, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00849589 History of Changes
Health Authority:	United States: Institutional Review Board

Keywords provided by Children's Hospital Boston:

Screening
Brief intervention
Underage drinking

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Ethanol

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 30, 2009