Validating NIAAA Screen Guide in YCMC

Completed

Conditions studied: Alcohol Related Disorders

In brief

Alcohol use is a serious health threat to the 26% youth in the US with chronic medical conditions. While alcohol use can significantly impact an underlying illness and its safe/effective management, medical specialists rarely screen their adolescent patients for alcohol use. The investigators will validate a new, brief alcohol- screening tool with 9-18 year old youth with chronic medical conditions. Comprehensive assessment information will be collected and analyzed to describe relationships between youth alcohol use, other substance use, and chronic disease outcomes and findings integrated into the validated screen as actionable clinician guidance and health advice.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01544218

Run by

Boston Children's Hospital

People needed

521

Starts

2012-09-01

Expected to finish

2016-06-30

Last updated by the study team

2017-06-21

Who can join

Age: 9 and older, up to 18. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• 9-18 years of age
• duration of chronic illness of at least one year
• ability to speak/read English and use a computer keyboard and/or complete an interviewer-assisted questionnaire

You may not qualify if…

• medically or emotionally unstable
• unable to assent/consent

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital Boston — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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