Examining the influence of adolescent:provider alliance on youth hazardous drinking: Findings from a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Behavioral interventions to reduce hazardous drinking are only moderately successful in promoting sustained behavior change and post-intervention effect sizes among adolescents remain modest. This study aimed to explore a relevant therapeutic active ingredient, adolescent:provider alliance, as a moderator of short-term (3 month) adolescent intervention outcomes within the course of a larger parent randomized control trial (RCT).

Methods

Participants were community-based youth engaged in hazardous drinking (N = 168) who were randomized to 2 sessions of either motivational interviewing (MI) or mindfulness (brief adolescent mindfulness; BAM). Youth reported pre-intervention hazardous drinking at baseline and rated therapeutic alliance (a metric of adolescent:provider "c

SUBMITTER: Dash GF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9946157 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature