Emergency Department (ED) Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Intervention

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Alcohol Drinking

In brief

The aim of the present study is to prevent or delay the initiation of alcohol use among young adolescents being seen in a pediatric emergency department, by enhancing parental monitoring and improving parent/adolescent conversations. Previous studies have shown that the pediatric emergency department is an excellent location for performing prevention interventions. By targeting individuals and their families in the pediatric emergency department (PED), we are capitalizing on the opportunity to perform a prevention intervention among a high risk population when parent and youth may be particularly receptive to the intervention.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01105416

Run by

Rhode Island Hospital

People needed

196

Starts

2010-07-01

Expected to finish

2012-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-11-05

Who can join

Age: 12 and older, up to 14. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Adolescents, age 12-14, who are being seen in the Pediatric ED for a non life-threatening injury and their parent/caregiver;
• Adolescent must be medically stable;
• For a parent/adolescent family unit to be eligible, one or both of the adolescent's parents must be present in the ED with the adolescent; and
• The adolescent must report not having initiated alcohol use.

You may not qualify if…

• Family units in which either the parent or the adolescent are cognitively unable to take part in the intervention;
• Those in which the youth is suspected by the clinical staff of being a victim of child abuse (these adolescents will be reported to child protective services);
• Those in which the youth is medically or surgically unstable;
• Family units in which the adolescent is being evaluated for a possible psychiatric disorder; and those without a telephone and/or a verifiable address of residence.

Where it is running

• Hasbro Children's Hospital Emergency Department — Providence, Rhode Island, United States

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