Clinical trial NCT06875323: FostrSpace-CASA R61/R33
Official title: CASA and FostrSpace: Systems Delivery of Digital Substance Use Prevention Tools to Foster Youth
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Substance Use
Keywords: Foster youth
Substance use
mHealth
Lead sponsor: University of California, San Francisco
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
First posted: 2025-03-13
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 13
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to understand how an online digital health application (app) called FostrSpace can reduce substance use among youth (ages 13-20 years old) in foster care.

Detailed description: The goal of this clinical trial is to identify gaps in substance use prevention across existing CASA trainings and the FostrSpace app for foster youth and test how substance use trainings for CASA volunteers could help facilitate FostrSace app referrals to reduce and prevent substance use among CASA youth.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adolescents and young adults will be eligible if they are age 13-20, are proficient in English, have an assigned CASA worker, and have a device with web access.
* CASAs (ages 18 and over) will be eligible if they are assigned to a youth between the ages of 13- 20.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Youth: Exclusion criteria include being non-English speaking, being within 3 months of ending with CASA services, cognitive impairment that precludes ability to provide informed consent.
* CASA: Exclusion criteria include being non-English speaking and working with a youth who is within 3 months of ending with CASA services.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Rate of Drug Use
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Rate of Cigarette Use
timeFrame: baseline
Secondary outcomes:
measure: The Alcohol and Marijuana Expectancy Questionnaire
timeFrame: baseline
measure: The Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire
timeFrame: baseline
measure: The Brief Marijuana Consequences Questionnaire
timeFrame: baseline
measure: The Brief Symptom Inventory
timeFrame: baseline
Other outcomes:
measure: CASA Background Characteristics
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Arrest and Treatment
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Youth Background Characteristics
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Social Determinants of Health
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Therapeutic Alliance
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Youth/CASA Relationship
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Trauma
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Ethnic Identity
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Stigma
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Peer Substance Use
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Background Characteristics
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Substance use prevention related knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and self efficacy
timeFrame: baseline
measure: Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue
timeFrame: 30 days post baseline, 60 days post baseline
measure: FostrSpace App Utilization
timeFrame: baseline, 30 days post baseline, 60 days post baseline
measure: Psychiatric Symptoms
timeFrame: baseline
measure: FostrSpace Usability
timeFrame: 30 days post baseline, 60 days post baseline
Locations:
city: San Francisco
country: United States
facility: UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
state: California
Study officials:
affiliation: University of California, San Francisco
name: Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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