Brief Interventions With Text Messaging to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use (STAR)

Feasibility of Augmenting Brief Interventions With Text Messaging to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol and Marijuana Use

This study tests the feasibility of an intervention to prevent risky alcohol or marijuana use that adds a 4-week course of tailored text messaging to a brief motivational intervention for 13-18-year-old adolescents.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Alcohol Drinking; Marijuana
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Text Messaging and Brief Negotiation Interview

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 10
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Connecticut
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06520
      • Yale New Haven Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 13 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• 13 to 18 years old
• Able to provide consent or assent and parental permission
• have a functioning cell phone without pay-as-you-go text messaging

Exclusion Criteria:

• currently enrolled in any substance abuse program;
• have medical/psychiatric condition that precludes participation

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Text messaging and brief intervention; Brief motivational interview and 4-weeks of text messaging.	Behavioral: Text Messaging and Brief Negotiation Interview; An in-person brief motivational intervention coupled with 4 weeks of motivational text messages

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Enrollment	Number of participants per month that enroll in the study	Baseline
Retention	% of enrolled participants that complete the 4-week follow up assessments	4 weeks
Satisfaction	Participant's rating of how much they like the intervention (Likert scale)	4 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yale University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): November 14, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 6, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): June 6, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 9, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 16, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 17, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): October 23, 2018
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: October 22, 2018
• Last Verified: October 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Drinking Behavior; Substance-Related Disorders; Alcohol Drinking; Marijuana Abuse; Marijuana Use
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2000021254

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO
• IPD Plan Description: IPD will not be shared

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No