The research project will focus on conducting a trial of whether a tailored SMS text-messaging intervention is efficacious in improving justice-involved youths' substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement.
The study will demonstrate how delivery of motivational/coaching messages to justice-involved youth and their caregivers will lead to greater youth substance use treatment attendance and engagement. The study will start with identifying the feasibility and acceptability of the SMS text-messaging intervention with community-supervised justice-involved youth. Then, the study will determine whether the tailored dyadic (youth and caregiver) SMS text-messaging intervention improves justice-involved youth substance use or dual diagnosis treatment attendance and engagement relative to standard of care (not receiving motivational/coaching messages). Finally, the study will characterize patterns of key justice and behavioral health system-level factors that promote or hinder eventual adoption and sustainability of mHealth technology as a tool to improve treatment attendance for justice-involved youth.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
79
SMS text messaging intervention for a period of 90 days to promote attendance at community-based substance use or dual diagnosis treatment appointments through motivational messages.
Standard of care engagement practices, such as communicating with youth and caregivers, as needed, through texting but frequency of contact and content of messaging varies according to individual needs.
UCSF Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
San Francisco, California, United States
Treatment session attendance
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Time frame: 30 days post baseline
Treatment session attendance
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Time frame: 60 days post baseline
Treatment session attendance
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Time frame: 90 days post baseline
Treatment session attendance
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Time frame: 120 days post baseline
Treatment session attendance
Proportion of treatment sessions attended
Time frame: 180 days post baseline
First treatment session initiation
Proportion who attended first treatment session, as scheduled
Time frame: 120 days post baseline
First treatment session initiation
Proportion who attended first treatment session, as scheduled
Time frame: 180 days post baseline
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