Study on Teen Alcohol and Drug Use
We are conducting a research study through the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program 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 Enhanced Therapy (MET) and the second is called Enhanced Standard Care (ESC). At this point, we don't know which of these two treatments is better. However, whichever treatment you receive, we believe you will do at least 25% better than before entering the study.
To participate in this study, your child has to be between 12-21 years old and have come to ASAP for an evaluation. The study would involve several more visits, and your child would be 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 groups. Answers to the questionnaire or the prior ASAP evaluation has absolutely no correlation into which group your child is placed.
If your child is placed in the Motivational Enhanced Therapy 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, instead of coming to the counseling sessions. You will also be offered the MET sessions after completing the final questionnaire (at 9 months). These sessions will be free of charge.
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 to the clinic, no matter which study group your child is in, he/she will be compensated with a gift card. For all the study visits except the last one the gift card will be worth $25. For the last visit the gift card will be worth $50. You can also receive a parking voucher and a meal voucher each time you bring your child to the clinic.
If you would like more information or have any questions, please call the ASAP line at (617) 355-2727.
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