Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice to Reduce Teen Drinking

Not Applicable

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• Conditions: Alcohol Abuse; Risk Behavior
• Interventions: Behavioral: Computerized SBA with technological extenders; Behavioral: Computerized screening and brief physician advice

• Registration Number: NCT00849589
• Lead Sponsor: Boston Children's Hospital

Brief Summary

The goal of this project is to adapt a computerized Screening and Brief Advice (SBA) protocol that has demonstrated efficacy in reducing underage drinking among adolescent primary care patients and then to test it in a multi-site randomized controlled trial (RCT).

Detailed Description

The specific aims of the proposed multisite RCT are:

1. To establish the efficacy of the computerized SBA protocol on alcohol use, on DWI/RWID, and other alcohol-related health risk behaviors;

2. To test the effect of Technological Extenders (TE) on prolonging the beneficial effects of the SBA protocol;

3. To identify moderators, mediators, and optimal responders to the SBA/TE interventions;

4. To examine the association between cessation of underage drinking and other health-risk behaviors in an adolescent primary care sample.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2009-02-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-02-23
• Study First Posted: 2009-02-24
• Study Start: 2010-01
• Primary Completion: 2014-01
• Study Completion: 2014-12
• Status Verified: 2016-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-10-06
• Last Update Posted: 2016-10-07

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: WITHDRAWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• 12-21 years old
• patients arriving for routine medical care
• provide informed assent (for those <18) or informed consent (for those 18-21)

Exclusion Criteria

• medically or psychologically unstable at time of visit
• receiving behavioral health services
• cannot read or understand English at a 6th grade reading level
• unavailable for follow-up assessments

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
3	Computerized SBA with technological extenders	Computerized screening and brief physician advice with technological extenders (SBA/TE)
2	Computerized screening and brief physician advice	Computerized Screening and Brief Physician Advice (SBA)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Initiation of underage drinking	Baseline, 3-months, 6-months, 12-months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cessation of underage drinking	Baseline, 3-months, 6-months, 12-months

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Children's Hospital Boston; 🇺🇸 Boston, Massachusetts, United States