Trial reportChild abuse & neglect2018
Developing a tailored substance use intervention for youth exiting foster care.
Trial report in Child abuse & neglect, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- Toward Participatory Precision Health With Co-Designed Recommendations: Systematic Review of Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions in Adolescents and Young Adults.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- A technology-based intervention to reduce alcohol use after metabolic and bariatric surgery: feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes.Surgery for obesity and related diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery · 2025Trial
- A Need for Strategies to Reduce Alcohol Use After Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Technology-Based Intervention and Study Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Virtually-delivered prenatal yoga to prevent postpartum depression (PRYD) in women with a history of depression: Protocol for an exploratory pilot randomized controlled trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2025Article
- Perspectives on a Technology-Based Smoking Cessation Intervention Among Youth Exiting Foster Care.Children and youth services review · 2025Article
- Advancing access to substance use prevention for foster youth through digital innovation: an open trial of fostrspace with court appointed special advocate programs.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Technology-Based Interventions for Substance Use Treatment Among People Who Identify as African American or Black, Hispanic or Latino, and American Indian or Alaska Native: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2024Article
- Long-term benefits of providing transitional services to youth aging-out of the child welfare system: Evidence from a cohort of young people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada.The International journal on drug policy · 2020Article
- America's opioid crisis: the need for an integrated public health approach.Translational psychiatry · 2020Review
- Toward a Defined Role for Occupational Therapy in Foster Care Transition Programming.The open journal of occupational therapy · 2020Article
- A text message delivered smoking cessation intervention: Design and rationale of the Text My Quit Study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Technology-Based Substance Use Intervention for Youth Exiting Foster Care.Children and youth services review · 2018Article
- Review of Use of Asynchronous Technologies Incorporated in Mental Health Care.Current psychiatry reports · 2018Review
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8 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Youth who are aging out of the foster care system face significant barriers to accessing substance use treatment. Mobile interventions have shown efficacy for several mental and physical health issues and may be helpful in overcoming barriers facing foster youth with substance use problems. A program (iHeLP) for substance use reduction was developed that used a computerized screening and brief intervention (SBI) followed by six months of dynamically-tailored text messages. The program was shown to focus groups of youth (N = 24) ages 18-19 who recently left foster care and had moderate to severe substance use risk. Focus group feedback was used to modify iHeLP prior to delivery in an open trial (N = 16). Both study phases included assessments of feasibility and acceptability; the open trial also included assessments of substance use outcomes at 3 and 6 months. Focus groups indicated a high level of acceptability for the proposed intervention components. Of those screened for the open trial, 43% were eligible and 74% of those eligible enrolled, indicating good feasibility. Retention through the final follow-up was 59%, and drop out was associated with involvement in the criminal justice system. Participant ratings for liking, ease of working with, interest in and respectfulness of the SBI were high. Satisfaction ratings for the texting component were also high. A computerized brief screening intervention for substance use risk reduction together with tailored text messaging is both feasible and highly acceptable among youth who have recently aged-out of foster care.
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