Alcohol and drug addiction Mental and Behavioural Disorders Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of alcohol
Conditions
Interventions
Each group will have 30 participants (N=30 allocated to Youth-Social Behaviour and Network Therapy and N=30 allocated to Treatment as Usual).
Young people randomised to SBNT will be offered 6, weekl
Sponsors
Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Young people aged 12-18, either sex 2. Young people with drug and/or alcohol problems accepted for treatment by the two agencies and willing and able to provide written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. With concurrent severe mental illness 2. Pending imprisonment. (i.e. will not be available for follow-up) 3. With severe physical illness 4. Unable or unwilling to give written informed consent
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary outcome measure for the pilot trial will be based on the Timeline Follow-Back (TLFB) interview and will be the proportion of days on which the main problem substance was used in the preceding 90 day period covered by each assessment point. The main problem substance will be that for which the referral to the services was made and this will be corroborated at the research assessment interview prior to completion of the TLFB. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Family-based approaches have the potential to impact on other facets of young people's lives and may lead to changes in a number of secondary areas including, family, psychological and social outcome variables that will be measured with validated questionnaires that have been widely used in trials of young people: The following measures will be used. 1. Emotional well-being: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (Goodman, 1997) has five separate sub-scales for different aspects of problems or behaviours: emotional problems, conduct/behaviour problems, inattention/hyperactivity, relationships with peers, and pro-socialbehaviour. The first four scales can be added together to produce a score for total difficulties. 2. Social Network Support: Given the emphasis on family and peer support of the intervention, the Important People Drug and Alcohol interview (IPDA) will be used in order to understand the influence of social support on treatment for substance misuse. 3. Family Environment: The Family Environment Scale (Moos and Moos, 1986) is designed to measure the atmosphere in the family household and will be used where appropriate to the circumstances of the participant. It is a 27-item measure and yields scores for family cohesion, free expression of emotion in the family and absence of open conflict. 4. Working Alliance Inventory (Horvath & Greenberg, 1989) will be administered at 3-month follow-up to the young people and also to the therapists delivering the intervention and treatment as usual. The questionnaire measures the perceived strength of the working alliance between therapists and their clients during therapy sessions. 5. School attendance and engagement, self-reported crime and health care and social services contact will be measured based on questionnaires used by the applicants in previous alcohol trials (UKATT Research Team, 2005; Coulton, 2009). 6. EQ-5DY (version of the EQ-5D validated with youth populations. | — |
Countries
United Kingdom
Outcome results
None listed