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Technology-assisted intervention for parents of adolescents in residential substance use treatment: protocol of an open trial and pilot randomized trial

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Title
Technology-assisted intervention for parents of adolescents in residential substance use treatment: protocol of an open trial and pilot randomized trial
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Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, January 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13722-016-0067-4
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Sara J. Becker, Lynn Hernandez, Anthony Spirito, Selby Conrad

Abstract

Adolescents in residential substance use disorder (SUD) treatment have poor outcomes post-discharge, with follow-up studies suggesting that most adolescents relapse within 90 days. Parenting practices directly influence adolescent SUD outcomes, but parents of adolescents with SUDs are difficult to engage in traditional behavioral treatments. The current study adapts and evaluates a technology-assisted intervention for parents of adolescents in residential SUD treatment. Based on pilot qualitative data with parents, adolescents, and residential staff, we augment an existing computerized intervention (Parenting Wisely; PW) with four in-person coaching sessions, personalized text messages, and an expert-moderated online parent message board. We hypothesize that parents will find enhanced PW (PW+) both feasible and acceptable, and that adolescents whose parents receive PW+ will have better post-discharge outcomes than adolescents who receive standard care (SC) only. A two phase approach is used to adapt and evaluate PW+. Phase 1 consists of an open trial with 10 parents of adolescents (age 12-17) in residential SUD treatment. Post-discharge qualitative and quantitative data from parents and adolescents will support PW+ refinement. Phase 2 is a randomized pilot trial with 60 parents testing the effectiveness of adding PW+ to SC. Adolescents and parents will complete assessments at baseline, 6-, 12-, and 24-weeks post-discharge. Primary outcomes will be measures of feasibility and acceptability. Secondary outcomes will include adolescent substance use, truancy, high-risk sexual behavior, and criminal involvement. Two parenting processes (monitoring and communication) are examined as potential mediators of change. This study will adapt and evaluate a technology-assisted parenting intervention as a means of improving adolescent outcomes following residential SUD treatment. Results have the potential to advance the field by: addressing a high-risk population, improving parental engagement; targeting parenting practices (putative mediators of change) that have been linked to adolescent outcomes; and developing a highly disseminable approach.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 145 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 21 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Student > Master 16 11%
Student > Bachelor 13 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 8 6%
Other 23 16%
Unknown 47 32%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 45 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 14 10%
Medicine and Dentistry 13 9%
Social Sciences 7 5%
Computer Science 3 2%
Other 8 6%
Unknown 55 38%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 February 2017.
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#8,534,528
of 25,371,288 outputs
Outputs from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#270
of 487 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#146,092
of 422,324 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
#5
of 6 outputs
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