Using Technology to Reduce Youth Substance Use

NCT ID: NCT04446910

Last Updated: 2025-04-06

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

79 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-05-01

Study Completion Date

2025-04-01

Brief Summary

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The research project will focus on conducting a trial of whether a tailored SMS text-messaging intervention is efficacious in improving justice-involved youths' substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement.

Detailed Description

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The study will demonstrate how delivery of motivational/coaching messages to justice-involved youth and their caregivers will lead to greater youth substance use treatment attendance and engagement. The study will start with identifying the feasibility and acceptability of the SMS text-messaging intervention with community-supervised justice-involved youth. Then, the study will determine whether the tailored dyadic (youth and caregiver) SMS text-messaging intervention improves justice-involved youth substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement relative to standard of care (not receiving motivational/coaching messages). Finally, the study will characterize patterns of key justice and behavioral health system-level factors that promote or hinder eventual adoption and sustainability of mHealth technology as a tool to improve treatment attendance for justice-involved youth.

Conditions

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Drug Use

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

This is a hybrid 1 effectiveness-implementation design in which the investigators will test a theory-driven digital health (i.e., SMS text-messaging) treatment engagement intervention while also collecting data on the text messaging platform's potential implementation and adoption within juvenile justice and behavioral health settings.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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SMS Text Messaging

SMS text messaging intervention for a period of 90 days to encourage attendance at community-based substance use or dual diagnosis treatment appointments through motivational messages.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

SMS Text Messaging

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

SMS text messaging intervention for a period of 90 days to promote attendance at community-based substance use or dual diagnosis treatment appointments through motivational messages.

Standard of Care Engagement Practices

Standard of care engagement practices, such as communicating with youth and caregivers, as needed, through texting but frequency of contact and content of messaging varies according to individual needs.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Standard of Care Engagement Practices

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard of care engagement practices, such as communicating with youth and caregivers, as needed, through texting but frequency of contact and content of messaging varies according to individual needs.

Interventions

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SMS Text Messaging

SMS text messaging intervention for a period of 90 days to promote attendance at community-based substance use or dual diagnosis treatment appointments through motivational messages.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Standard of Care Engagement Practices

Standard of care engagement practices, such as communicating with youth and caregivers, as needed, through texting but frequency of contact and content of messaging varies according to individual needs.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* English-speaking youth with willing adult caregiver
* Ages 13-18
* Justice-involved while living in the community
* Own a mobile phone or tablet
* Are willing to send and receive text messages
* Are referred to community-based substance use and/or mental health treatment

Exclusion Criteria

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Minimum Eligible Age

13 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

NIH

Sponsor Role collaborator

University of California, San Francisco

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of California, San Francisco

Locations

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UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital

San Francisco, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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1K24DA046569-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: secondary_id

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1K24DA046569-01A1

Identifier Type: NIH

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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