Optimizing Toxicological Screening in Drug Endangered Children
30. juni 2017 opdateret af: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Background:
- Children who enter the foster care system are all too often exposed to illicit drugs in the home. Children from these homes, known as drug endangered children, are not routinely tested for harmful substances. Any short- and long-term physical or developmental problems they may experience as a result of this exposure often go undetected and untreated.
- Children who are placed into protective custody are not always screened by physicians or nurse practitioners. Although drug-endangered children under 18 years of age automatically receive a urine toxicology screen to determine the types and levels of illicit drugs in their systems, this procedure has difficulties and limitations that may affect the quality of the data. Researchers are interested in developing more effective methods of analyzing the presence or absence of illicit environmental drug exposure in children.
Objectives:
- To determine the most effective method of identifying long-term illicit stimulant drug exposure in drug-endangered children.
Eligibility:
- Children under 18 years of age who are being placed into protective custody after having been found in a home where drugs are manufactured, used, or sold.
Design:
- Researchers will gain verbal consent for the procedure for children who are 7 years of age or older. Children younger than 7 years of age will not be required to give verbal consent for sample collection.
- Researchers will collect standard urine samples for toxicological screening. Part of the sample will be sent to the National Institute on Drug Abuse for evaluation; the rest will remain with the local authority.
- In addition to this standard procedure, researchers will collect a hair sample by cutting a small amount of hair from the crown of the head as close to the root as possible (and not pulling any hair out of the child's head).
- Researchers will also use an oral swab to collect a saliva sample from the inside cheek of each child.
- No clinical care will be provided under this protocol....
Studieoversigt
Status
Afsluttet
Betingelser
Detaljeret beskrivelse
This is a single-center, investigator-initiated study to determine the best method for analyzing the presence or absence of illicit environmental drug exposure in children placed into protective custody in Sacramento County.
In collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) we will use diagnostic procedures to determine the presence of illicit drugs in the following three samples: (1) hair; (2) oral swab; and (3) urine.
These samples will be sent to a designated NIH lab site where 100 de-identified samples will be analyzed for methamphetamine, amphetamine, Ecstasy (MDMA), and MDEA.
Undersøgelsestype
Observationel
Tilmelding (Forventet)
100
Kontakter og lokationer
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Studiesteder
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California
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Davis, California, Forenede Stater, 95616
- University of California, Davis
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Deltagelseskriterier
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Berettigelseskriterier
Aldre berettiget til at studere
1 år til 18 år (Barn, Voksen)
Tager imod sunde frivillige
Ingen
Køn, der er berettiget til at studere
Alle
Beskrivelse
- ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
Inclusion criteria are the following (and must have all of the following):
- children under the age of 18 (the vast majority - 87 percent - of children examined at the Center are under the age of 6);
- children placed into protective custody by Sacramento County CPS or law enforcement;
- children examined at the CAARE Center; and
- children found in a home where drugs are manufactured, used and/or sold.
Exclusion criteria are the following (any one of the following may apply):
- anyone who has reached the age of majority;
- those found to have parents who are not drug abusers;
- those where there was no definitive evidence of environmental drug exposure (i.e., suspicious parent, but no drugs were found in the home); or
- any child, drug exposed or not, who is examined in the UCD Emergency Department (after hours - 9:00 pm to 7:00 am - and weekends).
Studieplan
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Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?
Design detaljer
Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere
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Datoer for undersøgelser
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Studer store datoer
Studiestart
10. juli 2007
Studieafslutning
22. marts 2011
Datoer for studieregistrering
Først indsendt
19. december 2009
Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier
19. december 2009
Først opslået (Skøn)
23. december 2009
Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler
Sidste opdatering sendt (Faktiske)
2. juli 2017
Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier
30. juni 2017
Sidst verificeret
22. marts 2011
Mere information
Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse
Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår
Andre undersøgelses-id-numre
- 999907431
- 07-DA-N431
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