Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults
NCT ID: NCT04461314
Last Updated: 2020-11-04
Study Results
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Basic Information
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UNKNOWN
NA
200 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2020-08-26
2023-08-31
Brief Summary
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Objectives:
i. To raise anti-drug awareness of young people in general and identify high-risk/hidden drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below in Hong Kong; and ii. To train university students with a medical background as peer counsellors; and iii. To provide drug abuse hotline service by students with a medical background as peer counsellors to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below, and other people who call for help, including drug abusers' family members, friends, and professionals; and iv. To improve the drug-abusing youth and young adult' knowledge about the hazard of drug abuse, negative attitude, and perception towards the drug abuse through the telephone peer counselling service provided by students with medical background; and v. To increase the intention to quit and the help-seeking behavior among the drug-abusing youth and young adult; vi. To increase reduction rate and abstinence rate from drug abuse, and decrease the relapse rate among drug-abusing youth and young adult through the telephone peer counseling service.
Detailed Description
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The hotline service will operate from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekday and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on weekend. A peer counsellor or a research assistant will answer the telephone inquiries from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. The students will be invited to complete the pre, post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge of and attitudes towards addiction counselling. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure their perception on the quality of training programme.
Peer counsellors will use telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to motivate and encourage drug-abusing or high-risk youth and young adults to rehabilitate from drug abuse, assist them to manage the withdrawal symptoms, and help identify barriers and facilitators to rehabilitate from drug abuse in the telephone counselling. The peer counsellors will give referral advices if the youth and young adult needs appropriated treatment and rehabilitation services.
The drug-abusing youth and young adults will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires over the telephone after joining the MedPAC Hotline Service programme for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups were invited to have urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence status.
Conditions
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Study Design
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NA
SINGLE_GROUP
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Study Groups
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Peer-led counselling
1. About 50 university students trained as peer telephone counsellors through a structured training programme.
2. About 200 Drug-abusing youth and young adults received telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI)
peer-led counselling
About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. A pre and post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire will be conducted before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge and attitudes. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure participants' perception of the quality of the training programme.
Drug-abusing youth and young adults will receive telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to rehabilitate from drug abuse. The peer counsellors will give referral advice if the youth and young adult needs appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services.
The drug abusers will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups will be invited to have a urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence.
Interventions
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peer-led counselling
About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. A pre and post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire will be conducted before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge and attitudes. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure participants' perception of the quality of the training programme.
Drug-abusing youth and young adults will receive telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to rehabilitate from drug abuse. The peer counsellors will give referral advice if the youth and young adult needs appropriate treatment and rehabilitation services.
The drug abusers will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires at 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups will be invited to have a urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence.
Eligibility Criteria
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Exclusion Criteria
35 Years
ALL
No
Sponsors
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The University of Hong Kong
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Dr. LI William Ho Cheung
Associate Professor
Principal Investigators
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Ho Cheung William Li, PhD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
The University of Hong Kong
Locations
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The University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Countries
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Central Contacts
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Facility Contacts
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References
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Xia W, Li HCW, Liang T, Luo Y, Ho LLK, Cheung AT, Song P. Structured online training for university students to deliver peer-led addiction counselling for young drug abusers in China: Effect on improving knowledge, attitude, confidence, and skills. Patient Educ Couns. 2022 Apr;105(4):1009-1017. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.07.038. Epub 2021 Jul 24.
Other Identifiers
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MedPAC Hotline
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id