NCT03125291: Bridges

Optimizing a Drug Abuse Prevention Program for Dissemination

Status unknown NA Last updated 2 July 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Bridges 4-week Program in Substance Abuse in 664 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

28 July 2015

Primary endpoint
1 April 2019

1 September 2019

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Arizona State University
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	prevention
Enrollment	664
Start date	28 July 2015
Primary completion	1 April 2019
Estimated completion	1 September 2019
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Bridges 4-week Program

Conditions studied

• Substance Abuse — all drugs for Substance Abuse →
• Mental Health — all drugs for Mental Health →
• Educational Problems — all drugs for Educational Problems →

Sponsor

Arizona State University

Who can join

Adults 10 to 15, any sex, with Substance Abuse or Mental Health. Healthy volunteers can join.

What's being measured

Primary outcomes are the specific endpoints the trial is designed to prove or disprove.

• Substance Use Problems and Risky Behaviors
  Time frame: 1 year.
  Self reported drug and alcohol initiation and/or use (Monitoring the Future), sexual initiation and risky sexual behavior (adapted from the national 2001 Youth Risk Behavior Survey).
• Mental Health
  Time frame: 1 Year
  Internalizing and externalizing symptoms(Child Behavior Checklist-parent report, Youth Self-report, and the Brief Problem Monitor- teacher form.
• Academic Outcomes
  Time frame: 1 Year
  School archival data (Grades, Disciplinary actions, and Absences)

Sponsor's own description

This project is a hybrid efficacy/effectiveness trial of a streamlined version of the Bridges program, an evidence-based intervention (EBI) to prevent substance abuse and mental health disorders. Bridges is an integrated parent-youth intervention evaluated in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with Mexican Americans (immigrant and U.S. born) that showed long-term effects on multiple outcomes: substance use initiation and escalation, externalizing and internalizing symptoms, deviant peer association, and grade point average (GPA) in early adolescence; alcohol abuse disorder, binge drinking, marijuana use, risky sexual behavior, diagnosed mental disorder, and school dropout in late adolescence. Building on evidence of core intervention components and strategies for redesigning EBIs for the real-world, investigators will partner with low-income, multiethnic schools to adapt the program to a brief, 4-session format (Bridges short program, BSP), and optimize engagement, delivery, training, and implementation monitoring systems to facilitate dissemination and sustainability. The proposed RCT will also examine whether a parent-youth EBI can impact multiple channels of youth self-regulation (e.g., biological, behavioral, emotional) during adolescence when neurobiological systems are changing rapidly, and whether preexisting individual differences in self-regulation moderate program effects.

Publications & conference data

2 peer-reviewed publications reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Are Discrepancies Between Father and Adolescent Perceptions of Harsh Parenting and Conflict Associated with Adolescent Mental Health Symptoms?
   Hidalgo SG, Kim JJ, Tein JY, Gonzales NA. · · 2023 · cited 3× · PMID 37633858 · DOI 10.1007/s10964-023-01842-2
2. What got in the way? Caregiver-reported challenges to home practice of assigned intervention skills.
   Kim JJ, Gonzales NA, Thamrin H, Mauricio A, et al · · 2021 · PMID 37090005 · DOI 10.1177/26334895211055994