Individual and Family Motivational Interviews for Substance Using Truant Teens

NCT ID: NCT01170026

Last Updated: 2025-01-15

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 69 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2010-08-31
• Study Completion Date: 2013-07-31

Brief Summary

This application will provide a test of one potential model for adding substance use assessment and brief intervention into a truancy court program. The primary goal of this study is to determine whether a motivational intervention will reduce substance use among adolescents referred to truancy court for school attendance problems. In this treatment development application, an open trial with 20 families referred by truancy court will first be conducted. This trial will be used to adapt an existing motivational intervention to include material relevant to school attendance and performance. Then 100 families participating in the Rhode Island Truancy Court Program with adolescents between the ages of 13-16 years who report using substances will be randomly assigned to receive the experimental intervention plus standard truancy court procedures or psychoeducation plus standard truancy court procedures. The 2-session intervention protocol consists of an individual motivational interview plus the Family Check-Up (Dishion & Kavanagh, 2003), a family based motivational interview. The experimental protocol provides a thorough assessment of both individual and family strengths and weaknesses with respect to substance use prevention and school attendance/performance. Follow-up interviews will be conducted at 3 and 6 months.

Conditions

Substance Use

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

Family Check-up/Individual MI

Two session motivational intervention to improve parent monitoring and communication with respect to adolescent risk behavior especially substance use plus 2 session Individual Motivational Intervention for the adolescent

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Family Check-up/ Individual MI

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

The 2-session intervention protocol consists of an individual motivational interview plus the Family Check-Up (Dishion \& Kavanagh, 2003), a family based motivational interview. The experimental protocol provides a thorough assessment of both individual and family strengths and weaknesses with respect to substance use prevention and school attendance/performance.

Psychoeducation

Two sessions of psychoeducation for parents regarding adolescent risk behaviors especially substance use

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Individual and family psychoeducation

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Families in PE will return for the same number of visits as the IMI and FCU sessions of the IMI/FCU condition. An interventionist will review a set of educational materials with the parents regarding teen SU use, truancy and risk behaviors and parenting a teenager. A similar set of materials will be reviewed with the adolescent

Interventions

Family Check-up/ Individual MI

The 2-session intervention protocol consists of an individual motivational interview plus the Family Check-Up (Dishion \& Kavanagh, 2003), a family based motivational interview. The experimental protocol provides a thorough assessment of both individual and family strengths and weaknesses with respect to substance use prevention and school attendance/performance.

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Individual and family psychoeducation

Families in PE will return for the same number of visits as the IMI and FCU sessions of the IMI/FCU condition. An interventionist will review a set of educational materials with the parents regarding teen SU use, truancy and risk behaviors and parenting a teenager. A similar set of materials will be reviewed with the adolescent

Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL

Other Intervention Names

(Family Check-up); (Psychoed)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

1. between the ages of 13-16 at the start of the project and living at home with at least one parent/guardian,

2. t- score of 70 or above on one of the diagnostic-oriented scales (internalizing or externalizing problems) on the Child Behavior Checklist (i.e. reach the clinical cut-off),

3. the child must report 6 or more incidences of substance use in the last 90 days,

4. parental consent and child assent are obtained.

Exclusion Criteria

1. adolescent meets diagnostic criteria for substance dependence suggesting need for more intensive services,

2. the family is not able to speak and understand English or Spanish well enough to complete study procedures.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 13 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 16 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Brown University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Anthony Spirito

Professor

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

Anthony Spirito, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Brown Medicl School

Locations

Brown University

Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Countries

United States

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

1 R34 DA0029871

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id