Predictors and moderators of response to brief interventions among adolescents with risky alcohol and marijuana use.

ABSTRACT: Background:Brief interventions have shown promise in reducing adolescent alcohol and marijuana use. This manuscript presents a secondary analysis of a randomized trial that compared a brief parent motivational intervention (Family Check Up; FCU) to brief psychoeducation (PE) condition and found no effect of treatment condition on either binge drinking or marijuana use days. The current analyses explored whether the response to treatment may have varied as a function of six empirically-based baseline moderators and predictors: biological sex, age, race/ethnicity, mental health problems, parent-adolescent communication, and peer deviance. Methods: Data from the parent trial randomizing 102 parents to either the FCU (n = 51) or PE (n = 51) interventions were re-ana

SUBMITTER: Becker SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7511420 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature