Mindfulness Mobile App to Reduce Adolescent Substance Use
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Adolescent Use of Cigarettes
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The current proposal is aimed at developing a substance use cessation app (Rewire) for high risk adolescents who are involved in the juvenile justice system. The Rewire app will be based on the primary substance use cessation components tested in our previous work with juvenile justice-involved adolescents and on intervention components shown to be central to smoking cessation.
Detailed Description
The Rewire Study will recruit 60 youth (30 boys and 30 girls) who have had contact with the Department of Youth Services in the last year. Consent will be obtained from parents or guardians for the youths' participation. The participating teens will come to Oregon Research Institute for a baseline assessment. During this visit, the teens will complete an assent form and spend 20-30 minutes completing an online survey with an assessor; topics covered in the survey include emotion regulation and drug and alcohol use. Teens will have the app loaded onto their phones and be provided with instructions for its use during this visit. Participants are asked to use the app over the next 2 weeks, completing 4 modules and spending 5-10 minutes each day answering questions about recent emotions and substance use. Teens will be contacted via email for follow up assessments at 8 weeks post-baseline. These emails will contain links to the follow-up surveys which also ask about emotion regulation and drug and alcohol use; surveys should take 20-30 minutes to complete.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 13 Years to 18 Years (Child, Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •ages 13 to 18
- •involved with Juvenile Justice system
- •documented substance use
- •English-speaking
- •living in the community
Exclusion Criteria
- •non English-speaking
- •living in treatment or detention facility
Arms & Interventions
App Evaluation
All 60 teens in The Rewire Study will complete the first 4 modules of the Rewire app. Prior to using the app, they will complete a baseline assessment. Follow up surveys will be completed at 2 weeks and 8 weeks post-baseline.
Intervention: Rewire App (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Adolescent Use of Cigarettes
Time Frame: Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest)
Proportion of participants that use cigarettes as measured by Youth Substances Interview
Adolescent Use of E-cigarettes
Time Frame: Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest)
Proportion of participants that use e-cigarette use as measured by Youth Substances Interview
Adolescent Use of Alcohol
Time Frame: Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest)
Proportion of participants that use alcohol use as measured by Youth Substances Interview
Adolescent Use of Marijuana
Time Frame: Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest)
Proportion of participants that use marijuana use as measured by Youth Substances Interview
Secondary Outcomes
- Changes in Adolescent Mindfulness Practices - Observe Subscale(Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest))
- Changes in Adolescent Mindfulness Practices - Describing Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (posttest))
- Change in Adolescent Mindfulness Practices - Acting With Awareness Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-week (posttest))
- Change in Adolescent Mindfulness Practices - Non-judging of Inner Experiences Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (posttest))
- Change in Adolescent Mindfulness Practices - Non-reactivity to Inner Experience Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-week (posttest))
- Changes in Emotion Regulation - Non-acceptance of Emotional Response Subscale(Baseline (pretest), 8 weeks (posttest))
- Changes in Emotional Regulation - Difficulties Engaging in Goals Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (posttest))
- Changes in Emotional Regulation - Impulse Control Difficulties Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (posttest))
- Changes in Emotional Regulation - Lack of Emotional Awareness Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (Posttest))
- Changes in Emotional Regulation - Limited Access to Emotion Regulation Strategies Subscale(Baseline (pretest) and 8-week (posttest))
- Changes in Emotional Regulation - Lack of Emotional Clarity(Baseline (pretest) and 8-weeks (posttest))