An interventional study of PURPOSE in Substance Use Disorders and Parenting, sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles. Withdrawn at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 21 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-04-22.
Sponsored by University of California, Los Angeles · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
The purpose of this study is to develop and test a social media-based (Facebook) intervention that provides support and skills to parents with adolescent children in treatment for substance abuse. The Facebook intervention, PURPOSE, will be 8 weeks long and led by other parents (peer leaders). Peer leaders will go through 2 2-3-hour training sessions and be assessed at the end to confirm their understanding of study protocol and procedures. The study PI will lead 2 short (2-weeks) trial tests of various segments of the intervention to test out content and procedures. Then, a pilot trial with 80 parents, 40 randomized to PURPOSE and 40 randomized to treatment as usual (TAU), will be done to test how useful PURPOSE can be in promoting parents' engagement in their child's treatment and recovery while reducing their own distress and feelings of shame/stigma. Parents will do a phone interview at the start of PURPOSE and again at the end of the 8 weeks.
This study will take advantage of established peer training techniques to train parents of adolescents who are more experienced to help other parents better engage in services for their adolescent child. This pilot study marks the beginning of our long-term program of research focused on adapting intervention tools for delivery via e-technology platforms as a means for optimizing treatment effectiveness for youth. Thus, the proposed study will contribute to the scientific literature on the role of parental support in adolescent recovery as well as respond to NIDA's call for increased understanding of the feasibility and utility of social media as an option expanding the traditional treatment and face-to-face self-help groups. The proposed study has the following aims:
Aim 1: To develop PURPOSE, a social-media based intervention that provides information and coping tools for parents/guardians of adolescent children with a SUD. The theoretically grounded intervention will be peer-led, and will be developed and refined with feedback from experts, providers, parents, and adolescents.
Aim 2: To determine the feasibility and acceptability of PURPOSE that uses online peer-led intervention delivery. Trial testing will be conducted to iteratively refine content and procedures in order to optimize the engagement and usefulness of the intervention for parents.
Aim 3: To conduct a pilot control trial to provide preliminary data on this intervention so as to determine if social media-based parent support group involvement positively impacts parent outcomes (reduced stigma and distress, improved parent monitoring, and increased engagement in adolescent treatment) and adolescent outcomes (treatment retention and abstinence).
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Exclusion Criteria:
Parents in the PURPOSE group will join a "secret" Facebook group for 2 months. Groups will be lead by 2 peer leaders and include 20 parent participants.
Behavioral: PURPOSE
Treatment as Usual parents will be contacted after 8 weeks to complete follow-up interview. Will not receive PURPOSE intervention.
The first week of the intervention will focus on welcoming everyone to the facebook group and laying down the ground rules for participation. Each additional week of the intervention will focus on a specific topic to promote discussion and learning of each particular skill; however, questions and discussions on other relevant topics are always welcome and encouraged. Week 1: Welcome Week Week 2: SUD Basics Week 3: Problem of Stigma Week 4: Communication Skills Week 5: Parental Monitoring Week 6: Stress Management Week 7: Family and Valued Directions Week 8: Putting It All Together
Adolescent Treatment History and Parental Engagement Questionnaire
Parental report of child's treatment status, including enrollment date, primary reason for seeking treatment, and type of facility. All parents will also report on number of informal parent/family support groups (e.g., AlAnon) and formal treatment sessions they have attended (baseline and follow-up).
Time frame: 8 weeks
Perceived Stigma of Addiction Scale
The PSAS is an 8-item self-report questionnaire designed to assess perceptions of the prevalence of stigmatizing beliefs towards individuals with substance use diagnoses and treatment histories (baseline and follow-up)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Parental Monitoring Questionnaire
Relationship and disclosure constructs will be used from Stattin and Kerr's (2000) questionnaire of parental monitoring (baseline and follow-up)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Satisfaction and Usability Questionnaire
Participants will report overall satisfaction and degree to which information provided was deemed applicable and helpful. Likert-scale reports of satisfaction as well as responses to open-ended questions will be collected (PURPOSE intervention parents only and follow-up only).
Time frame: 8 weeks
K-10 Scale of Psychological Distress
The U.S. National Health Survey K-10 is a 10-item screening scale used to assess the degree of non-specific psychological distress over the past 30 days (baseline and follow-up)
Time frame: 8 weeks
Plan to share: No
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