Actively Recruiting
Brief Motivational Interviewing +/- Mindfulness Training for Adolescent Alcohol Use in Pediatric Primary Care
Led by Johns Hopkins University · Updated on 2025-09-16
1500
Participants Needed
13
Research Sites
264 weeks
Total Duration
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Sponsors
J
Johns Hopkins University
Lead Sponsor
P
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute
Collaborating Sponsor
AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Alcohol use is prevalent in U.S. adolescents and contributes to adverse health outcomes in this population. Care for adolescent alcohol use is lacking in most pediatric primary care settings (PPC). This project is a pragmatic comparative effectiveness and implementation study that employs a superiority, two-arm, randomized, prospective, observer-blinded, controlled trial design to compare the effectiveness of a patient-centered brief motivational interviewing-based alcohol intervention (BMAI) alone to the same BMAI augmented with adjunctive smartphone app-delivered mindfulness training (MT) for alcohol use in adolescents receiving primary care in PPC clinics across a regional health network. Main effectiveness outcomes will be alcohol use and alcohol related problems assessed over a one-year follow-up period. Implementation outcomes and mediators and moderators of intervention response will also be examined as part of the study.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Brief Motivational Interviewing +/- Mindfulness Training for Adolescent Alcohol Use in Pediatric Primary Care
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Age between 12 and 17 years
- Receiving pediatric primary care through the Johns Hopkins Medical Institute healthcare network
- Positive screening for moderate or high alcohol use risk with any monthly alcohol use in the past 12 months
- Able to speak, understand, and read English or Spanish
- Able to provide assent and have parental consent/permission to participate
You will not qualify if you...
- Severe medical or psychiatric conditions that may make participation hazardous (e.g., psychosis, homicidality, active suicidality, mania)
- Intellectual disability reported or documented by self, caregiver, or provider
- Current or recent specialty substance use disorder treatment in the past 6 months
- Current physiological alcohol withdrawal requiring urgent inpatient referral
- Regular opioid, benzodiazepine, or cocaine use more than weekly or overdose in past 6 months
- Previous mindfulness-based intervention experience in the past 12 months
- Regular meditation practice over 30 minutes per day for more than 5 days per week in the 30 days before screening
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 13 locations
1
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Remington
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21211
Not Yet Recruiting
2
Johns Hopkins Bayview Pediatrics (Baltimore Medical System, Yard 56)
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
Not Yet Recruiting
3
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Canton Crossing
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21224
Not Yet Recruiting
4
Harriet Lane Clinic
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
Actively Recruiting
5
Johns Hopkins University Center for Adolescent and Young Adult Health
Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 21287
Actively Recruiting
6
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Water's Edge
Belcamp, Maryland, United States, 21017
Not Yet Recruiting
7
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Bowie
Bowie, Maryland, United States, 20715
Not Yet Recruiting
8
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Howard County Pediatrics
Columbia, Maryland, United States, 21046
Not Yet Recruiting
9
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Glen Burnie
Glen Burnie, Maryland, United States, 20161
Not Yet Recruiting
10
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Hagerstown
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States, 21742
Not Yet Recruiting
11
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, White Marsh Pediatrics
Nottingham, Maryland, United States, 21236
Not Yet Recruiting
12
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Odenton Medical
Odenton, Maryland, United States, 21113
Not Yet Recruiting
13
Johns Hopkins Community Physicians, Rockville Pediatrics
Rockville, Maryland, United States, 20854
Not Yet Recruiting
Research Team
C
Christopher J Hammond, MD, PhD
CONTACT
G
Gabrielle Newton, MPH
CONTACT
How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
DOUBLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
TREATMENT
Number of Arms
2
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