Recruiting

Screening & MET

Sponsor:

Boston Children's Hospital

Code:

NCT01881841

Conditions

Alcohol Abuse

Tobacco Use Disorder

Substance Use

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14 - 20

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

cMET

Study Details

Brief summary:

The goal of this project is to evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and effect size of a new computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET) intervention for alcohol-involved adolescents in primary care.

Conditions

Alcohol Abuse

Tobacco Use Disorder

Substance Use

Study ID

NCT01881841

Start date

Jan, 2015

Status verified date

Apr, 2017

Completion date

Aug, 2017

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Aug, 2017

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 14 - 20

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • 14- to 20- yr-olds
  • arriving for routine care to one of our participating pediatric practices (Lexington Pediatrics, Lexington, MA; East Boston Community Health Center, Longwood Pediatrics, Tufts Medical Center Adolescent Clinic, Boston, MA; Cambridge Health Alliance Dept. of Pediatrics, Cambridge, MA)
  • any alcohol use days in the past 90 days,
  • have an email address and internet access at home, school, or library
  • provide informed assent/consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • unable to read or understand English,
  • living away at college at the time of the recruitment visit,
  • not available for computer/telephone follow-ups,
  • judged by the provider to be medically or emotionally unstable at the time of the visit.

Study Design

Enrollment

150 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

no intervention: Treatment As Usual

Those randomized to Treatment as Usual (TAU) will not complete cMET but will receive standard treatment from the doctor.

experimental: cMET

Those randomized to cMET will complete a 2-session computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET) intervention.

Interventions

cMET

Those in cMET complete the 2-session self-administered computerized intervention which includes 8 exercises designed to encourage adolescents to evaluate the impact of alcohol and other substance use on their health and well-being and consider changing their use.

Primary outcome measure

  • Alcohol use [ Time Frame: up to 9-months follow-up ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

John R Knight, MD

617-355-5433john.knight@childrens.harvard.edu

Locations

Boston Children's Hospital

Recruiting

Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115

Contacts

John R Knight, MD

617-355-5433john.knight@childrens.harvard.edu

Melissa M Weiksnar, MS, MBA

857-218-4311melissa.weiksnar@childrens.harvard.edu

Principal Investigator:

John R Knight, MD

More Information

Sponsor

Boston Children's Hospital

Last update posted

Apr 20, 2017

Last verified

Apr, 2017

Keywords

  • Alcohol abuse
  • Substance use
  • Tobacco use disorder
  • Motivational Enhancement Therapy
  • Adolescents

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Boston Children's Hospital on 2017-04-20.