Preventing Youth Substance Use With Family Talk

NCT ID: NCT04400227

Last Updated: 2022-07-13

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: WITHDRAWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2022-07-31
• Study Completion Date: 2023-06-30

Brief Summary

Family Talk, an evidence-based parent-youth dyadic intervention, is a promising approach to improving substance use outcomes for high-risk families, and its structure lends itself to delivery by existing personnel within an Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) model of care. The investigators propose a single-arm pilot study with 25 parent-youth dyads through which a rapid cycle performance improvement approach will be employed to adapt and optimize the content and delivery of the embedded Family Talk prevention strategy. The investigators will field-test relevant baseline and outcome measures and will use qualitative methodology to identify key modifications to the intervention and generate hypotheses for how the prevention strategy may impact youth and family outcomes and prevent youth substance use. Information from this study will inform a subsequent pilot randomized controlled trial of the intervention to prevent substance use for youth whose parents are in recovery from SUD (substance use disorder).

Conditions

Substance Use Disorders

Study Design

• Allocation Method: NA
• Intervention Model: SINGLE_GROUP
• Primary Study Purpose: PREVENTION
• Blinding Strategy: NONE

Study Groups

Youth-Parent Dyads

Participants will receive the Family Talk intervention and followup.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Family Talk

Intervention Type: OTHER

Family Talk is an evidence-based, parent-youth dyadic approach that uses psychoeducation and skills building to help families make meaning of a parent's adversity, increase resilience, and improve family functioning.

The Family Talk model comprises two components: the first involves a series of cognitive-behavioral techniques to bolster problem solving and communication skills among family members; the second involves a facilitated family meeting to develop a shared narrative for discussing each family member's experience of the parent's illness.

Interventions

Family Talk

Family Talk is an evidence-based, parent-youth dyadic approach that uses psychoeducation and skills building to help families make meaning of a parent's adversity, increase resilience, and improve family functioning.

The Family Talk model comprises two components: the first involves a series of cognitive-behavioral techniques to bolster problem solving and communication skills among family members; the second involves a facilitated family meeting to develop a shared narrative for discussing each family member's experience of the parent's illness.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Participating parent is receiving treatment for substance use disorder
• Participating youth is between the ages of 12-25
• Participating youth has no diagnosis of substance use disorder
• Parent and youth are both comfortable communicating in English or Spanish

Exclusion Criteria

• Acute family crisis, such as recent or current incarceration, divorce, adult return to substance use, or traumatic event
• Adult or youth with cognitive limitation or intellectual disability

• Minimum Eligible Age: 12 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

Sponsor Role: collaborator

Boston Medical Center

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

Caroline Kistin, MD MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Boston Medical Center

Scott Hadland, MD

Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR

Massachusetts General Hospital

Other Identifiers

K23DA045085

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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H-38895

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id