Adolescent Substance Treatment Engagement Questionnaire for Incarcerated Teens

Promoting readiness and engagement in pain rehabilitation for youth and families: Developing a pediatric telehealth motivational interviewing protocol

Objective

Intensive interdisciplinary pain treatment (IIPT) is a promising approach for youth with complex, disabling, refractory pain conditions. However, youth and families who initiate IIPT without sufficient acceptance of its focus on functional rehabilitation or readiness to adopt a self-management approach to their pain may face challenges in IIPT and/or experience suboptimal outcomes. Motivational interviewing (MI) techniques have been shown to enhance readiness to make a number of health behavior changes for adults and youth, but it has not been systematically examined in the context of pediatric IIPT. The authors developed an MI telehealth intervention protocol explicitly designed to prepare youth and families for admission to IIPT.

Method

The protocol development process is detailed here, including influential models, expert consultation, and feedback from IIPT clinical experts. The intervention protocol was then piloted with a group of eligible families to elicit feedback and prompt further refining. Feasibility and acceptability were explored through measures of treatment engagement and satisfaction.

Results

The Promoting Readiness and Engagement in Pain Rehabilitation (PREPaRe) intervention protocol contains four modules aimed to enhance youth and parent readiness to adopt a self-management approach to persistent pain, through a motivational interviewing approach. Initial responses from the test group suggested high levels of treatment engagement and treatment satisfaction with PREPaRe.

Conclusions

PREPaRe appears feasible to administer and acceptable to families of youth with persistent pain seeking IIPT. Implications for implementation are discussed. Further study via randomized control trial is warranted.

Trial registration

ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT04093921.

INSTRUMENTOS RELACIONADOS AO CONSUMO DE DROGAS EM ADOLESCENTES: REVISÃO INTEGRATIVA

RESUMO Objetivo: identificar os instrumentos validados e relacionados ao o consumo de drogas em adolescentes. Método: revisão integrativa que incluiu estudos sobre a elaboração e validação ou avaliação das propriedades psicométricas de instrumentos para a análise do consumo de drogas por adolescentes nas línguas portuguesa, inglesa e espanhola. Busca realizada nas bases de dados: MEDLINE, LILACS, SCOPUS, CINAHL, COCHRANE e Web of Science. Para tal, cruzaram-se os descritores “Estudos de Validação”, “Estudos de validação como assunto”, “adolescente” e “transtornos relacionados ao uso de substâncias psicoativas”. Foram resgatados 743 artigos e após o processo de seleção e análise do rigor metodológico, um total de 11 compuseram esta revisão. A coleta de dados foi realizada com auxílio de instrumento validado e os resultados foram categorizados com base nos objetivos dos testes. Resultados: identificaram-se dez instrumentos: cinco questionários, um inventário e quatro escalas. Os instrumentos abordaram o risco, uso/abuso de substâncias psicoativas e questões relativas ao tratamento. Dois apresentaram maior confiabilidade: ASTEQ-COUNSELOR e o DCI-A-SF. Conclusão: foram sumarizadas informações sobre dez instrumentos validados e voltados para o consumo de drogas em adolescentes. Estes permitem a mensuração e a identificação do consumo de drogas e de aspectos relacionados ao tratamento para problemas decorrentes do uso dessas substâncias. Duas ferramentas foram tidas como as mais confiáveis por apresentaram melhores valores de alfa para os itens individualmente e em conjunto, ASTEQ-COUNSELOR e o DCI-A-SF. Dispor de instrumentos de mensuração confiáveis auxilia a pesquisa e a práxis do enfermeiro.

Chinese Drug Users’ Abstinence Intentions: The Role of Perceived Social Support

This study investigated the relationship between Chinese drug users’ perceived social support and their intentions for choosing abstinence. Both bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed with 3,239 drug users, especially heroin (427) and methamphetamine (890) users. All participants were from multiple Chinese compulsory drug treatment institutions. Perceived support from friends was the factor that showed a strongest positive relationship with Chinese drug users’ abstinence intentions. The positive influence from family support on the willingness to seek and choose abstinence was not as great as scholars have suggested, which challenges previous research findings. Methamphetamine users had a significantly lower chance of pursuing abstinence, but their abstinence intentions were positively related to perceived support from friends. Comparatively, all types of perceived social support had no significant influence on heroin users’ abstinence intentions. This study highlights that, as China’s methamphetamine-addicted population rapidly expands, tailored treatment, especially facilitating positive peer support, is urgently needed.