Clinical trial NCT01170260: Alcohol, Marijuana, and Risky Sex: Group Interventions With Detained Adolescents
Official title: Alcohol, Marijuana, and Risky Sex: Group Interventions With Detained Adolescents
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Risk Reduction Behavior
Health Behavior
Sexual Behavior
Adolescent Behavior
Cannabis
Lead sponsor: University of New Mexico
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
First posted: 2010-07-27
Enrollment: 460
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 14
Maximum age (years): 18
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: FACTORIAL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This research is studying behaviors that young people engage in that may place them at risk for contracting a sexually transmitted disease like HIV/AIDS, and what kind of educational program works best to reduce these risky behaviors.

Detailed description: During baseline assessment, a computer questionnaire is administered, including questions about participants' attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors regarding sexual behavior, condom use, and drug use. A saliva sample is provided as well. A "Time-Line Follow-Back" is conducted, noting on which days certain activities occurred, such as sexual intercourse, alcohol use, marijuana use, and cigarette use. A urine sample is also collected in order to test for the STD's chlamydia and gonorrhea (if results are positive, we schedule a meeting with the participant to administer medication to treat the STD).

In the second session, a 3-hour interventional health class is held with groups of same-gender participants. There are 3 different health classes (one focusing just on sex risk reduction, one focusing on sex and alcohol risk reduction, and one focusing on sex, alcohol, and marijuana risk reduction); participants are randomly assigned to one.

Participants are contacted 3 months after the intervention, 6 months after, 9 months after, and 12 months after, in order to meet. These meetings entail completing another Time-Line Follow-Back and completing another questionnaire. At the final 12 month meeting, we collect another urine sample to again test for chlamydia and gonorrhea. As before, if results are positive, we schedule a meeting with the participant to administer medical treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Ages 14-18
* Involved in Juvenile Justice System (living in the Detention Center when recruited)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Currently taking anti-psychotics
* Involved in similar intervention-based study (2 similar studies being conducted simultaneously by this lab)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Number of Participants With Risky Sexual Behavior Measured for 1 Year
timeFrame: 1 year
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Albuquerque
country: United States
facility: Juvenile Detention Center (JDC)
state: New Mexico
Study officials:
References:
citation: Schmiege SJ, Magnan RE, Yeater EA, Feldstein Ewing SW, Bryan AD. Randomized Trial to Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior Among Justice-Involved Adolescents. Am J Prev Med. 2021 Jan;60(1):47-56. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2020.07.009.
citation: Bryan AD, Magnan RE, Gillman AS, Yeater EA, Feldstein Ewing SW, Kong AS, Schmiege SJ. Effect of Including Alcohol and Cannabis Content in a Sexual Risk-Reduction Intervention on the Incidence of Sexually Transmitted Infections in Adolescents: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Pediatr. 2018 Apr 2;172(4):e175621. doi: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.5621. Epub 2018 Apr 2.