Substance Use
Conditions
Keywords
Foster youth, Substance use, mHealth
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to understand how an online digital health application (app) called FostrSpace can reduce substance use among youth (ages 13-20 years old) in foster care.
Detailed description
The goal of this clinical trial is to identify gaps in substance use prevention across existing CASA trainings and the FostrSpace app for foster youth and test how substance use trainings for CASA volunteers could help facilitate FostrSace app referrals to reduce and prevent substance use among CASA youth.
Interventions
OTHERECHO-FostrSpace
Six ECHO-FostrSpace session training for CASA volunteers.
OTHERInformational Session
One ECHO-FostrSpace session training for CASA volunteers.
Sponsors
University of California, San Francisco
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
13 Years to 20 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Adolescents and young adults will be eligible if they are age 13-20, are proficient in English, have an assigned CASA worker, and have a device with web access. * CASAs (ages 18 and over) will be eligible if they are assigned to a youth between the ages of 13- 20.
Exclusion criteria
* Youth:
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Rate of Drug Use | baseline | The Texas Christian University (TCU) drug screen with opioid supplement is used to gather detailed information about drug and opioid use. |
| Rate of Cigarette Use | baseline | The Cigarette smoking and vaping/e-cigarette use is used to gather detailed information about nicotine and/or cannabis use. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Alcohol and Marijuana Expectancy Questionnaire | baseline | The Alcohol and Marijuana Expectancy questionnaire is used to measure positive and negative expectancies about affective, cognitive and behavioral effects of alcohol and cannabis use. Items are rated from 1-5 scale and higher scores indicate negative alcohol and marijuana expectancies. |
| The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire | baseline | The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire is used to assess the severity of alcohol consumption. Higher scores indicate greater severity of consequences associated with alcohol consumption. |
| The Brief Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire | baseline | The Brief Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire is used to assess the severity of marijuana consumption. Higher scores indicate greater severity of consequences associated with marijuana consumption. |
| The Brief Symptom Inventory | baseline | Brief Symptom Inventory is used to measure depression, anxiety and somatization symptoms to assess for psychiatry distress. Index ranging from 0 to 72 with cut-score of 11 as indication of psychiatric distress. |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORMarina Tolou-Shams, PhD
University of California, San Francisco
Outcome results
None listed