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NCT Number: NCT01797835

Alcohol Screening in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Adolescents in Primary Care

Screening youth in the primary care setting is one way to identify adolescents who may be at-risk for future alcohol problems. The current study tests the new NIAAA screening guide questions, which ask about friend and adolescent drinking, to see how well these questions work to predict subsequent alcohol use, problems, and involvement in other risk behaviors, such as sexual risk-taking and delinquency. In addition, the investigators plan to provide a brief motivational intervention for some at-risk teens and see whether alcohol use differs for those teens who receive the intervention and those teens who receive enhanced usual care. The results of this study have the potential to significantly impact the standard of care for identifying and intervening with at- risk youth in primary care settings.

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Key information

Conditions

Alcohol Use Alcohol Drinking Behavior Drinking Behavior Drug Use

Age range

12 year–18 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Valley Community Clinic, North Hollywood, California, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

1

  • 12-18
  • speak English

Exclusion criteria

  • cognitive impairment

Treatment and study plan

CHAT brief MI intervention

Behavioral

CHAT is one 15-20 minute session delivered in a single PC visit and utilizes motivational interviewing with youth to target alcohol and drug use in primary care.

Usual Care

Behavioral

Youth receive a brochure with information on AOD use.

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of Times Used Alcohol

    Time frame: Past 3 months

    in the past three months: Number of times used alcohol; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of Times Used Marijuana

    Time frame: Past 3 months

    number of times used marijuana in the past 3 months; The 6-point frequency response scale (0= "Never" to 5= "More than 20 times") was rescaled to a pseudo-continuous variable ranging from 0 to 20 using the mid-point of any range as the new value (e.g. 3-10 times was recoded as 6.5 times).

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

RAND

Other

Collaborators

  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Valley Community Clinic

Registry information

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2015
Study completion
2018
First posted
Feb 25, 2013
Registry last updated
Jul 17, 2019

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