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Using Technology to Reduce Youth Substance Use

Using Technology to Reduce Youth Substance Use

Recruiting
13-18 years
All
Phase N/A

Overview

The research project will focus on conducting a trial of whether a tailored SMS text-messaging intervention is efficacious in improving justice-involved youths' substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement.

Description

The study will demonstrate how delivery of text messages for appointment reminders and motivational/coaching message to justice-involved youth and their caregivers will lead to greater youth substance use treatment attendance and engagement. The study will start with identifying the feasibility and acceptability of the SMS text-messaging intervention with community-supervised justice-involved youth. Then, the study will determine whether the tailored dyadic (youth and caregiver) SMS text-messaging intervention improves justice-involved youth substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement relative to standard of care (not receiving text messaging appointment reminders and motivational/coaching messages). Finally, the study will characterize patterns of key justice and behavioral health system-level factors that promote or hinder eventual adoption and sustainability of mHealth technology as a tool to improve treatment attendance for justice-involved youth.

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

  • English-speaking youth
  • Ages 13-18
  • Justice-involved while living in the community
  • Own a mobile phone or tablet
  • Are willing to send and receive text messages
  • Are referred to community-based substance use and/or mental health treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

-

Study details
    Drug abuse
    substance abuse
    substance abuse

NCT04446910

University of California, San Francisco

16 February 2024

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