Using Technology to Reduce Youth Substance Use
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Drug Use
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
- Enrollment
- 79
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Treatment session attendance
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- last year
Overview
Brief Summary
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
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.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
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
- Not provided
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Treatment session attendance
Time Frame: 180 days post baseline
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Secondary Outcomes
- First treatment session initiation(180 days post baseline)