Study on Teen Alcohol and Drug Use
We are conducting a research study through the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) to find the best way for doctors and counselors to help teens who use alcohol and other drugs. The study is comparing two kinds of treatment. The first is a counseling style called Motivational Interviewing and the second is called Enhanced Standard Care.
To participate in this study, your child must be between 12 and 21 years old and must first have an evaluation through ASAP. The study involves several additional visits, and participating teens are compensated for each of those visits.
At the first visit, your child will be interviewed about substance use and will complete a questionnaire. Immediately after filling out the questionnaire, he/she will be randomly placed into one of two treatment groups. Answers to the questionnaire or the prior ASAP evaluation has absolutely no correlation with the group in which your child is placed.
If your child is placed in the Motivational Interviewing group, he/she will stay for a one-hour counseling session with an ASAP clinician and return for two more 1-hour counseling visits over the next month.
If your child is placed in the Enhanced Standard Care group, he/she will receive two phone calls from a research assistant over the next month.
We expect that study participants in both groups will have reduced levels of drug and alcohol use, in part because of the close follow-up and repeated interviews.
Regardless of which group your child is placed in, he/she will have two more interviews and questionnaires to complete after the first study visit - one 6 months after and the other 9 months after. At each study visit your child will be compensated with a $25 gift card and you will receive a parking voucher and a meal voucher.
If you would like more information or have any questions, please call the ASAP line at (617) 355-2727.
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