Project e-PBI+ - Parent Intervention to Reduce College Student Drinking and Cannabis Use

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-19
SponsorPenn State University

About this trial

College students' risky drinking and cannabis use are major public health problems. The harms associated with risky drinking have been well-documented (such as deaths, blackouts, injuries, assaults, arrests, sexual consequences, academic consequences). Both college health administrators and parents have requested electronic parent-based interventions (e-PBIs) with additional content on cannabis. Parents have demonstrated ample motivation to communicate with their teens. The proposed research will attempt to enhance an existing effective e-PBI, curb the alarming trends noted in the literature, and move the field forward by conducting a randomized controlled trial testing a modified version of the e-PBI that includes updated content including the most up-to-date scientific information from cannabis studies (e-PBI+).

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Parent and teen both consent and complete baseline (forming a dyad testing unit)

Disqualifiers

Outside of the teen age range; both parent and teen do not consent and complete baseline

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • e-PBI+
  • e-PBI

Treatment groups

2,425 Participants
are divided into 3 treatment groups

Sponsors and collaborators