Supporting Adolescent Alcohol Treatment With Computer-Based ('Path180') Skills Training

ConditionAlcohol Use Disorder

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age13-19

SponsorBrown University

About this trial

This 8-week clinical trial will test a computer-based skills training program called Path180 with 112 adolescents aged 13 to 19 who are receiving mental health counseling or outpatient substance use treatment. Participants will be randomly assigned to either standard treatment (treatment as usual) or standard treatment plus Path180. The study will use ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to closely track how Path180 may influence the use of CBT skills and clinical outcomes in daily life. The goal is to help make evidence-based treatment more accessible for underserved youth in the early stages of alcohol use disorder.

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Ages 13 to 19 years, inclusive; we will exclude children < 13 due to diversity across adolescence and youths > 19 because our focus is teenagers

Seeking/receiving mental health counseling and/or outpatient substance use disorder treatment at Bradley Hospital or another national clinic/treatment service

Self-reported alcohol use in the past year

Meets criteria for a current DSM-5 alcohol use disorder assessed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children: Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS)

Disqualifiers

Current significant alcohol withdrawal symptoms (score > 10) on the Clinical Institute Withdrawal Assessment for Alcohol-Revised (CIWA-AR); those with current significant alcohol withdrawal may be re-screened after stabilization

DSM-5 criteria for a severe SUD besides alcohol, cannabis and tobacco

Psychosis NOTE: Prospective participants diagnosed with psychiatric disorders not specifically excluded above may be included at the discretion of the principal investigator as long as the concurrent treatment for the comorbid psychiatric condition does not compromise the study integrity by virtue of its type, duration, or intensity.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

Path180

Treatment groups

112 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators

Brown University

Lead sponsor

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Collaborator

Source ClinicalTrials.gov