A Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Abuse Among Adolescent Girls

• Sponsor: Columbia University (Other)
• Overall Status: Completed
• CT.gov ID: NCT01813123
• Collaborator: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) (NIH)
• Enrollment: 788
• Location: 1
• Arms: 2
• Duration (Months): 71
• Patients Per Site Per Month: 11.1

Study Details

Study Description

Brief Summary

This study is designed to develop and test a gender-specific, web-based drug abuse prevention program. Study participants will be adolescent girls aged 13 and 14 years who will complete all measures online. Randomly assigned girls will also interact online with a skills-based program and subsequent annual booster sessions.

The study's primary hypothesis is that rates of 30-day alcohol and drug use will be lower among girls assigned to receive the intervention.

Condition or Disease	Intervention/Treatment	Phase
Drug Abuse Prevention	Behavioral: RealTeen	N/A

Study Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Actual Enrollment: 788 participants
• Allocation: Randomized
• Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)
• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Official Title: A Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Drug Abuse Among Adolescent Girls
• Study Start Date: Mar 1, 2013
• Actual Primary Completion Date: Jul 1, 2017
• Actual Study Completion Date: Jan 30, 2019

Arms and Interventions

Arm	Intervention/Treatment
No Intervention: Control
Experimental: Intervention RealTeen	Behavioral: RealTeen; A web-based, gender-specific program intended improve girls' cognitive and behavioral skills. Each of the 9 sessions requires approximately 20 minutes. After initial intervention, girls will receive two annual booster sessions (i.e., a 20-minute review of previously learned material indexed to new age).

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcome Measures

1. 30-day alcohol and drug use [Up to 3 years]

   Measures will ask girls to report, for the past 30 days, the number of: drinks of alcohol consumed, cigarettes smoked, puffs of marijuana, and times they consumed four or more drinks within 2 hours. Girls will also report past 30-day use of: inhalants, ecstasy, club drugs, prescription drugs for recreational use, heroin, and hallucinogens.

Eligibility Criteria

Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 13 Years to 14 Years
• Sexes Eligible for Study: Female
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Inclusion Criteria:

• resident of USA

• speaks English

• have private computer with Internet

Exclusion Criteria:

Contacts and Locations

Locations

	Site	City	State	Country	Postal Code
1	Columbia University School of Social Work	New York	New York	United States	10027

Sponsors and Collaborators

• Columbia University
• National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

Investigators

• Principal Investigator: Traci M Schwinn, PhD, Columbia University

Study Documents (Full-Text)

None provided.

More Information

Publications

None provided.

• Responsible Party: Traci M. Schwinn, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
• ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01813123
• Other Study ID Numbers: AAAJ3409; R01DA031782
• First Posted: Mar 18, 2013
• Last Update Posted: Jun 27, 2019
• Last Verified: Jun 1, 2019

• Keywords provided by Traci M. Schwinn, Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University: gender-specific; web-based; drug abuse; prevention
• Additional relevant MeSH terms: Substance-Related Disorders

Study Results

No Results Posted as of Jun 27, 2019