Alcohol Screening in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Adolescents in Primary Care

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Drug Use; Alcohol Use

• Registration Number: NCT01797835
• Lead Sponsor: RAND

Brief Summary

Screening youth in the primary care setting is one way to identify adolescents who may be at-risk for future alcohol problems. The current study tests the new NIAAA screening guide questions, which ask about friend and adolescent drinking, to see how well these questions work to predict subsequent alcohol use, problems, and involvement in other risk behaviors, such as sexual risk-taking and delinquency. In addition, the investigators plan to provide a brief motivational intervention for some at-risk teens and see whether alcohol use differs for those teens who receive the intervention and those teens who receive enhanced usual care. The results of this study have the potential to significantly impact the standard of care for identifying and intervening with at- risk youth in primary care settings.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-02-21
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-02-22
• Study First Posted: 2013-02-25
• Study Start: 2013-03
• Primary Completion: 2015-11
• Study Completion: 2018-08
• Results First Submitted: 2019-03-26
• Results First Submitted QC: 2019-05-31
• Results First Posted: 2019-06-26
• Status Verified: 2019-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-07-03
• Last Update Posted: 2019-07-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 294

Inclusion Criteria

1

• 12-18
• speak English

Exclusion Criteria

• cognitive impairment

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Times Used Alcohol	Past 3 months	in the past three months: Number of times used alcohol; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of Times Used Marijuana	Past 3 months	number of times used marijuana in the past 3 months; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).

Trial Locations

Locations (2)

Valley Community Clinic; 🇺🇸 North Hollywood, California, United States

UPMC St. Margaret; 🇺🇸 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States