Trial reportJournal of substance abuse treatment2017
Effects of a brief, parent-focused intervention for substance using adolescents and their sibling.
Trial report in Journal of substance abuse treatment, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Family-based prevention programmes for alcohol use in young people.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Predictors and moderators of response to brief interventions among adolescents with risky alcohol and marijuana use.Substance abuse · 2022Trial
- Adolescent Sibling Associations among Alcohol, Cannabis, and Sexual Risk Behavior: A Test of Interdependence.Substance use & misuse · 2022Trial
- Parent SMART (Substance Misuse in Adolescents in Residential Treatment): Pilot randomized trial of a technology-assisted parenting intervention.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2021Trial
- Efficacy of Family-based Interventions in Addressing Substance Use Disorders: A Systematic Review on Randomized Controlled Trials.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Review
- Lability in Parent- and Child-Based Sources of Parental Monitoring Is Differentially Associated with Adolescent Substance Use.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Article
- Is it Selection or Socialization? Disentangling Peer Influences on Heavy Drinking and Marijuana Use Among Adolescents Whose Parents Received Brief Interventions.Substance abuse : research and treatment · 2019Article
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Authors and funding
8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of the Family Check-up (FCU), a parent-focused brief motivational intervention, in families where parents were concerned about one adolescent's alcohol or marijuana use and the referred adolescent also had a sibling close in age. The primary goal of the FCU was to provide individualized feedback on specific parenting skills, including monitoring and supervision, limit setting, and alcohol-related communication. A total of 92 adolescents (37 female) between the ages of 12-19years of age along with a sibling (48 female) between the ages of 11-21years old, were randomized to the FCU or a psychoeducation (PE) comparison condition. Findings indicated that the FCU did not produce better effects on alcohol and other drug use outcomes than the PE condition, in either the adolescent or sibling. Brief interventions addressing parenting behaviors may not be sufficient to reduce alcohol use in adolescent drinkers not referred due to an alcohol-related incident. Future research might be conducted to explore whether brief parent interventions, such as those in the present study, could be useful as a preventive intervention for parents whose teens report low levels of substance use.
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