Pilot Test of Computerized MET to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol Use



Status:Completed
Conditions:Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:12 - 18
Updated:3/16/2015
Start Date:September 2013
End Date:March 2016
Contact:John R Knight, MD
Email:john.knight@childrens.harvard.edu
Phone:617-355-5433

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Pilot Test of Computerized MET Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Alcohol Use

The goal of this project is to conduct a pilot study evaluating feasibility, acceptability,
and estimating the effect size of a new computerized Motivational Enhancement Therapy (cMET)
intervention for alcohol-involved adolescent primary care patients. The investigators
hypothesize that 1) cMET, when added to Computerized Alcohol Screening and Brief
Intervention (cASBI), (cASBI+cMET) will be feasible and acceptable when used in primary
care; and 2) 12- to 18-yr old patients receiving cASBI+cMET will have lower rates of any
alcohol use, days of alcohol use, drinks per drinking day, and days of heavy episodic
drinking, than cASBI alone.


Inclusion Criteria:

- any alcohol use days in the past 90 days

- have an email address and internet access at home, school, or library

Exclusion Criteria:

- unable to read or understand English

- living away at college at the time of the recruitment visit

- not available for computer/telephone follow-ups

- judged by the provider to be medically or emotionally unstable at time of visit
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300 Longwood Ave
Boston, Massachusetts 02115
(617) 355-6000
Boston Children's Hospital Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care....
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