The International journal on drug policy · 2019
Computerized intervention to prevent drug use among at-risk adolescents in Central Asia: Preliminary family-level findings from a pilot mixed methods trial.
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Ismayilova Leyla, Terlikbayeva Assel, Rozental Yelena
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BACKGROUND: The rapidly growing rates of HIV infection in Kazakhstan are largely driven by injection drug use. The study adapts a family-focused evidence-based HIV and substance use prevention intervention for at-risk adolescents from communities in Almaty that have been greatly affected by heroin trade and use.
METHODS: This NIDA-funded pilot feasibility trial included 181 at-risk adolescents (ages 14-17) recruited through local schools and 181 of their parents or other adult family members. To be eligible, youth had to reside in city areas with high drug exposure and have at least one personal or family risk factor (e.g., substance-using family members or friends, parental criminal history). In addition to the standard school-based health education program on drug use and HIV, intervention arm adolescent-caregiver dyads received three pilot computerized sessions focused on caregiver-adolescent communication, support and monitoring. Adolescents and caregivers completed ACASI surveys in Russian at baseline, 3- and 6-month follow-ups and a subsample from the treatment group (n = 24 dyads) also participated in post-intervention focus group interviews.
RESULTS: At 6-month follow-up, small effect sizes were detected for parenting practices as the key theoretical mediating variable. Intervention arm participants reported a reduction in harsh discipline practices (Cohen's d= -.35, p = .026), an increase in positive and supportive parenting (d = 0.26, p = .042), and a decline in poor monitoring (according to caregivers d = -0.23, p = .137 and adolescents d = -0.25, p = .113). Post-intervention focus groups provided examples of how the intervention content allowed caregivers to reconnect with their children and get more involved in each other's lives.
CONCLUSION: In middle-income countries like Kazakhstan, interventions that integrate family involvement approaches and utilize interactive technologies may represent an engaging and potentially effective tool with high fidelity and easy scalability to reduce substance use and other risk-taking behaviors among at-risk youth.
METHODS: This NIDA-funded pilot feasibility trial included 181 at-risk adolescents (ages 14-17) recruited through local schools and 181 of their parents or other adult family members. To be eligible, youth had to reside in city areas with high drug exposure and have at least one personal or family risk factor (e.g., substance-using family members or friends, parental criminal history). In addition to the standard school-based health education program on drug use and HIV, intervention arm adolescent-caregiver dyads received three pilot computerized sessions focused on caregiver-adolescent communication, support and monitoring. Adolescents and caregivers completed ACASI surveys in Russian at baseline, 3- and 6-month follow-ups and a subsample from the treatment group (n = 24 dyads) also participated in post-intervention focus group interviews.
RESULTS: At 6-month follow-up, small effect sizes were detected for parenting practices as the key theoretical mediating variable. Intervention arm participants reported a reduction in harsh discipline practices (Cohen's d= -.35, p = .026), an increase in positive and supportive parenting (d = 0.26, p = .042), and a decline in poor monitoring (according to caregivers d = -0.23, p = .137 and adolescents d = -0.25, p = .113). Post-intervention focus groups provided examples of how the intervention content allowed caregivers to reconnect with their children and get more involved in each other's lives.
CONCLUSION: In middle-income countries like Kazakhstan, interventions that integrate family involvement approaches and utilize interactive technologies may represent an engaging and potentially effective tool with high fidelity and easy scalability to reduce substance use and other risk-taking behaviors among at-risk youth.