Motivational Interviews for Incarcerated Teens - 1

Motivational Interviews for Incarcerated Teens

The purpose of this study is to test the efficacy of an individual motivational interview for reducing alcohol and marijuana-related harm as well as alcohol and marijuana use in incarcerated teens.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Marijuana Abuse; Alcoholic Intoxication
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Behavior Therapy

Detailed Description

The objective of this research is to investigate ways to enhance motivation for treatment and effectively reduce substance abuse among juvenile offenders. Motivational intervention (MI) as preparation for residential treatment and for persons (including teens) with little motivation to change has been effective in reducing substance abuse. Thus, MI designed for delinquent youths who are required to attend substance abuse treatment may prove efficacious.

In this proposed randomized trial, a one-way design (MI + Standard Care [SC] v. Attention Control [AC] + SC) will be used to determine whether MI enhances subsequent treatment participation and reduces substance-related problems post discharge in substance using, delinquent youths. Teens will also receive a booster session of MI or AC prior to discharge. Primary outcome variables include alcohol and marijuana use, as well as related behaviors (illegal activity, sex or injuries while drunk or high). It is hypothesized that in comparison to teens receiving AC, youths receiving MI will participate more (by therapist and teen ratings) in SC and will show the lowest levels of heavy substance use and related problems after discharge. It is hypothesized that these effects will be mediated by stage of change, drug effect expectancies and self-efficacy.

This study will extend previous research by evaluating the use of MI with substance abusing teens in a correctional facility, and by expanding outcome measures to include alcohol and marijuana-related risk behavior (such as injuries and illegal activity when drunk or high) in this population. The development of effective interventions for substance using juvenile offenders has the potential to reduce substance abuse and crime in this population.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 200
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Rhode Island
    • Providence, Rhode Island, United States, 02912
      • Brown University

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 14 years to 19 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

Teens will be included if they meet any of the following criteria: 1) in the year prior to incarceration they used marijuana regularly (at least monthly); 2) in the year prior to incarceration they drank regularly (at least monthly) or binged (>=5 for boys; >=4 for girls) over any two week period or less; 3) they used marijuana or drank in the 4 weeks before the offense for which they were incarcerated; or 4) they used marijuana or drank in the 4 weeks before they were incarcerated.

Exclusion Criteria:

Those teens sentenced for less than 4 months or greater than 12 months will be excluded from participation. We estimate that during year 1 we will exclude an additional 25% of youths because they will have previously participated in the study, and at year 2 we anticipate excluding an additional 49% of youths based on prior participation in the study.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Drug and alcohol use	baseline, 3 month in facility, 3 month post facility

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Brown University
• Collaborators: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Lynda Stein, Ph.D., Brown University

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Stein LA, Graham JR. Ability of substance abusers to escape detection on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-Adolescent (MMPI-A) in a juvenile correctional facility. Assessment. 2005 Mar;12(1):28-39. doi: 10.1177/1073191104270838.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2000
• Primary Completion (Actual): May 1, 2004
• Study Completion (Actual): July 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 27, 2005
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 27, 2005
• First Posted (Estimate): September 28, 2005

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 25, 2014
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 24, 2014
• Last Verified: September 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: alcohol, marijuana
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Alcohol-Related Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Marijuana Abuse; Alcoholic Intoxication
• Other Study ID Numbers: NIDA-13375-1; R01DA013375 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract); R01-13375-1