Thai Family Support (TFS): Working with families of young substance users in primary health care

Not Applicable

Recruiting

• Conditions: Family support; Youth substance use; Mental Health - Addiction

• Registration Number: ACTRN12609000775213
• Lead Sponsor: Queensland University of Technology

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2009-09-07
• Last Update Posted: 13 January 2020

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 90

Inclusion Criteria

Key inclusion criteria: Participants have to be

- Aged over 18 years
- A member of the nuclear or extended family, or another person with a
close relationship with a substance user (SU) (e.g. spouse, unmarried intimate partner, parent, children, grand parent, sibling, other relatives, or boyfriend/girlfriend)
- Sufficient contact with substance users such as living with them or in contact with
them on at least 40% of days in the prior 3 months (including telephone contacts)
- Living less than 30 kilometres radius from the research site.
- His/her substance using relative does not enter alcohol or other drug treatments (except for any religion treatment)
- The person's substance using relative is a young person aged between 14 – 30 years

Exclusion Criteria

Key exclusion criteria:
People will be excluded if they:
- Met criteria for an alcohol or substance use disorder as assessed according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV (DSM-IV).
- Having illicit drug use or engaged in any domestic violence
- Met criteria of DSM-IV for serious psychotic disorders that is of
sufficient severity to interfere with understanding of the program’s procedure.
- His/her substance using relative engaged in previous drug and alcohol treatment in the past 3 months
- His/her substance using relative met criteria of DSM-IV in serious psychotic disorder that is of sufficient severity to interfere with understanding of the program’s procedure

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Quality of life as measured by the World Health Organization Quality of Life-Brief-Thai Questionnaire (WHOQOL-Bref-THAI).[In both groups: Baseline, 7 weeks post-randomisation and 3 months post-randomisation.];General psychological wellbeing as measured by the Thai General Health Questionnaire-28 (Thai GHQ28).[In both groups: Baseline, 7 weeks post-randomisation and 3 months post-randomisation.];Family relationship as measured with the Family Attitude Scale and Family Environment Scale.[In both groups: Baseline, 7 weeks post-randomisation and 3 months post-randomisation.]

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
il[Nil]