Implementing the teen marijuana check-up in schools-a study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Substance misuse is now encountered in settings beyond addiction specialty care, with schools a point-of-contact for student access to behavioral health services. Marijuana is a leading impetus for adolescent treatment admissions despite declining risk perception, for which the Teen Marijuana Check-Up (TMCU)-a tailored adaptation of motivational enhancement therapy-offers an efficacious service option. To bridge the knowledge gap concerning effective and affordable technical assistance strategies for implementing empirically supported services, the described trial will test such a strategy to facilitate school-based TMCU implementation.

Methods

A type II effectiveness/implementation hybrid trial will test a novel strategy for a TMCU purveyor to provide technical a

SUBMITTER: Hartzler B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5553739 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature