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NCT Number: NCT06848504

MedSMA℞T Mobile ED

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if a new smartphone-based intervention can help with factors related to opioid misuse in parents and adolescent/early adult children. The main question it aims to answer is:

• Can this intervention improve knowledge of, and attitudes towards, opioid misuse over traditional opioid-related counseling alone?

Participants will, in addition to receiving opioid counseling:

* Join an online meeting with research staff to test the smartphone-based intervention * Report demographic information * Complete surveys about opioids * Complete a family medication safety plan * Complete surveys after 3, 6, and 9 months

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Key information

Conditions

Opiate-related Disorders Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Disorders Narcotic-Related Disorders Opiate Use Disorder Opioid Opioid-Related Disorders Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

12 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Swedish American Hospital, Rockford, Illinois, United States

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Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Adults who receive an opioid prescription from a study Emergency Department, AND
  • who report having an adolescent, aged 12-18, living at home, AND
  • who speak and understand English
  • Each participant must have the ability to provide informed consent

Exclusion criteria

  • Adults who do not receive an opioid prescription from a study Emergency Department AND/OR
  • who do not have an adolescent, aged 12-18, living at home, AND/OR
  • who do not speak or understand English
  • Adults and/or adolescents who do not have the ability to provide informed consent

Treatment and study plan

MedSMA℞T Mobile

Behavioral

MedSMA℞T Mobile is an innovative mobile digital health intervention that integrates technology-based learning to facilitate family communication and creation of a personalized Family Medication Safety Plan. The Family Medication Safety Plan (FMSP) is a tool for families to record important information about their medications and create a plan for safe use, storage, and disposal. Participants will play MedSMA℞T Mobile for up to 30 minutes at the first study visit.

Primary outcomes

  1. Change in Adolescent Opioid Safety and Learning (AOSL) scale score over 9 month study

    Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months.

    The fourth factor of the Adolescent Opioid Safety and Learning (AOSL) scale, Opioid Harm, measures understanding of negative social and professional effects of opioid misuse. Scores range from 3-15, where 3 indicates the lowest level of overall opioid harm awareness and 15 is the highest level.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Change in Safe Opioid Storage Behaviour over 9 months

    Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months.

    This outcome contains 4 items from the Wisconsin Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success Community Survey - V02, comprised of yes/no questions. The minimum score for this scale is 0 (indicating least safe opioid storage behaviour) and the maximum is 4 (indicating most safe opioid storage behaviour).

  2. Change in Opioid Disposal Behaviour over 9 months

    Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months.

    This outcome contains 6 items from the Wisconsin Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success Community Survey - V02, and includes yes/no questions. The minimum score for this scale is 0 (indicating least safe opioid disposal behaviour) and the maximum is 6 (indicating most safe opioid disposal behaviour).

  3. Change in Medication Understanding and Use Self-Efficacy (MUSE) scale scores over 9 months

    Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months.

    This section covers the second factor, Learning About Medication, of the Medication Understanding and Use Self-Efficacy (MUSE) scale. This factor is comprised of 4 items, each scored 1-4. The minimum score is 4, and the maximum is 16. A score of 4 indicates lower understanding and self-efficacy in opioid use, whereas a score of 16 indicates highest level of understanding and self-efficacy in opioid use.

  4. Change in Family Communication Behaviour Patterns over 9 months

    Time frame: Baseline, 3, 6, and 9 months.

    This includes both the parent and child versions of the 26-item, 2-factor scales. The first factor, Conversation orientation, contains 15 items. The second factor, Conformity orientation, contains 11 items. Items are scored from 1-5, where 1 is "Disagree Strongly" and 5 is "Agree Strongly". Scale scores are averages for the two scales, with each item contributing equally. The minimum and maximum average scores, therefore, cannot exceed 1 and 5, respectively.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Joseph Strong

CONTACT

[email protected]

859-562-2766

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Olufunmilola Abraham

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Implementing MedSMA℞T Families in the Emergency Department Setting: A Game-based Approach for Improving Opioid Safety Among Adolescents and Parents

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2027
Study completion
2027
First posted
Feb 27, 2025
Registry last updated
Mar 17, 2026

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