MedPAC Hotline: A Medical Peer Addiction Counselling Hotline Service for Drug-abusing Youth and Young Adults
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 入组人数
- 200
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Change in drug consumption at 12-month follow-up
研究概览
简要总结
Aim: Providing peer counselling service delivered by student counsellors with a medical background via a hotline to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below.
Objectives:
i. To raise anti-drug awareness of young people in general and identify high-risk/hidden drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below in Hong Kong; and ii. To train university students with a medical background as peer counsellors; and iii. To provide drug abuse hotline service by students with a medical background as peer counsellors to drug-abusing youth and young adult aged 35 or below, and other people who call for help, including drug abusers' family members, friends, and professionals; and iv. To improve the drug-abusing youth and young adult' knowledge about the hazard of drug abuse, negative attitude, and perception towards the drug abuse through the telephone peer counselling service provided by students with medical background; and v. To increase the intention to quit and the help-seeking behavior among the drug-abusing youth and young adult; vi. To increase reduction rate and abstinence rate from drug abuse, and decrease the relapse rate among drug-abusing youth and young adult through the telephone peer counseling service.
详细描述
The MedPAC Hotline Service will be promoted to high-risk and drug-abusing youth and young adults through a variety of platforms, namely schools and youth service organizations, industries, community, mass media and internet, social media, posters and snowball approach.
The hotline service will operate from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. on weekday and from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on weekend. A peer counsellor or a research assistant will answer the telephone inquiries from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays.
About 50 university students will be trained as peer counsellors through a structured training programme. The students will be invited to complete the pre, post and 6-month self-administered questionnaire before, immediately and 6-month after the training programme to examine their changes of knowledge of and attitudes towards addiction counselling. A satisfaction survey will also be conducted to measure their perception on the quality of training programme.
Peer counsellors will use telephone-based, Peer-led Brief Motivational Interviewing (BMI) counselling to motivate and encourage drug-abusing or high-risk youth and young adults to rehabilitate from drug abuse, assist them to manage the withdrawal symptoms, and help identify barriers and facilitators to rehabilitate from drug abuse in the telephone counselling. The peer counsellors will give referral advices if the youth and young adult needs appropriated treatment and rehabilitation services.
The drug-abusing youth and young adults will be counselled and invited to complete the follow-up questionnaires over the telephone after joining the MedPAC Hotline Service programme for 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and 1 year. Self-reported quitters at 6-month and 1-year follow-ups were invited to have urine test to validate the drug abuse abstinence status.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- — 至 35 Years（Child, Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •The inclusion criteria of target service group for this quitline programme is that current drug abusers in Hong Kong who should (1) be aged 35 or below, (2) be able to communicate in Cantonese, and (3) have a history of drug abuse within the past 12 months (including all types of drugs such as narcotics analgesics, hallucinogens, depressants, stimulants, tranquillizers and other recreational drugs).
- •The inclusion criteria of peer counsellors providing counselling service in this quitline programme are those who should (1) be aged 18 - 35, (2) be able to communicate in Cantonese, (3) have a medical background, (4) complete the training courses and pass the evaluation of peer counsellor qualification.
排除标准
- •Those who are psychologically or physically unable to communicate will be excluded.
结局指标
主要结局
Change in drug consumption at 12-month follow-up
时间窗: Baseline and 12 months
Drug abuser's drug consumption is measured at 12-month follow-up. A questionnaire asking the frequency of drug use in the past 30 days will be used for assessing the self-reported change in drug consumption.
次要结局
- Change in relapse risk among the quitters(Baseline and 12 months)
- 30 days self-reported drug abstinence at 6-month and 12-month follow-up(Baseline, 6 months and 12 months)
- Satisfaction of peer counsellors to the drug abuse training programme(Immediately after the training programme)
- Change in drug consumption at 6-month follow-up(Baseline and 6 months)
- Change of the contemplation stage(Baseline, 6 months and 12 months)
- Changes of the perceived treatment needs and motivation towards solving the problem of drug abuse(Baseline, 6 months and 12 months)
- Change of self-efficacy of drug abusers to avoid drug use(Baseline, 6 months and 12 months)
- Drug abuser's improvement of knowledge and attitude on drug abuse hazards(Baseline, 6 months and 12 months)
- Peer counsellor's improvement of knowledge and attitude on drug abuse hazards(Baseline, immediately after the training programme and 6 months)
研究者
Dr. LI William Ho Cheung
Associate Professor
The University of Hong Kong