Adolescent Screening and Personalized Intervention Resource for Enhancement of Behavioral Health and Substance Use
Adolescent Screening and Personalized Intervention Resource for Mild/Moderate Substance Use and Co-Occurring Problems
Oregon Research Institute
120 participants
Feb 15, 2024
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
Only a small fraction of youth who are beginning to experience behavioral health problems and use alcohol or illicit drugs receive needed treatment services due to the lack of accessible, effective early intervention resources. The goal of this clinical trial is to compare a personalized brief web-based early intervention, eHealth Personalized Approach for Change Efficacy (ePACE), in which youth are offered choices regarding intervention content and desired level of engagement, to a "fixed", non-tailored brief intervention, eHealth Fixed Approach for Change Efficacy (eFACE) for adolescents with mild/moderate substance use and common co-occurring problems. Both ePACE and eFACE include a multi-problem screener that guides youths through a set of key integrated behavior change and counseling modules providing a cohesive focus on these four problem domains: drug abuse, interpersonal relations, negative emotions and stress. The main questions the trial aims to answer are: * Are substance use and co-occurring problem outcomes for ePACE and eFACE are superior to those for a waitlist comparison group (WC) * Are outcomes for ePACE are superior to those for eFACE * Are the direct effects of ePACE and eFACE (i.e., the improvements in substance use and co-occurring problem outcomes) associated with improvements in areas of functioning and new skills that are hypothesized to produce change -- that is, are the improvements shown in the ePACE and eFACE groups due to the mechanisms by which change is hypothesized to occur Participants in ePACE and eFACE will complete a baseline assessment prior to engaging in the intervention to which they are assigned and will complete post-intervention assessments 3 months and 6 months later. Participants in the WC group will complete three assessments: at baseline, 3-months, and 6-months.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria6
- -17 years
- live at home with at least one parent or parent figure
- reporting mild/moderate substance use
- reporting mental health issues
- sufficient English language skills for assessments and intervention
- sufficient English language skills for assessments and intervention
Exclusion Criteria4
- a sibling has already participated in the study
- evidence of psychotic or organic state
- high problem severity indicating possible need for higher level of care
- another parent or parent figure is already participating in the study
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Interventions
The ePACE intervention is based on culturally and developmentally relevant youth treatments organized around an integrative approach based on Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET) and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) to enhance motivation for change, support awareness of thoughts, emotions, and behavior, and address specific behavior change goals. The web-based approach is personalized, with youth-driven choices in terms of intensity, content, and sequencing of content and provide tailored feedback to youth regarding each individual's behavior change efforts. Modules address substance use, negative moods, decision-making, and interpersonal relations and require approximately 40-minutes to complete. Interactive activities, exercises, and quizzes are designed to promote skill acquisition. Each module involves an introduction and engagement strategies, several exercises and activities related to the problem area, goal setting, and a summary.
The eFACE intervention includes content that is similar to ePACE, but modules are offered in a fixed order with no tailoring features. Like ePACE, modules address substance use, negative moods, decision-making, and interpersonal relations and require approximately 40-minutes to complete. Each module involves an introduction and engagement strategies, several exercises and activities related to the problem area, goal setting, and a summary. However, no personalized feedback based on youth responses are provided to inform individual youth's behavior change efforts.
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NCT06306287