Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non-Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

TY - JOUR

T1 - Brief, Personality-Targeted Coping Skills Interventions and Survival as a Non-Drug User Over a 2-Year Period During Adolescence

AU - Conrod, Patricia J.

AU - Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie

AU - Strang, John

PY - 2010/1

Y1 - 2010/1

N2 - Context: Selective interventions targeting personality risk are showing promise in the prevention of problematic drinking behavior, but their effect on illicit drug use has yet to be evaluated.Objective: To investigate the efficacy of targeted coping skills interventions on illicit drug use in adolescents with personality risk factors for substance misuse.Design: Randomized controlled trial.Setting: Secondary schools in London, United Kingdom.Participants: A total of 5302 students were screened to identify 2028 students aged 13 to 16 years with elevated scores on self-report measures of hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity, and sensation seeking. Seven hundred thirty-two students provided parental consent to participate in this trial.Intervention: Participants were randomly assigned to a control no-intervention condition or a 2-session group coping skills intervention targeting 1 of 4 personality profiles.Main Outcome Measures: The trial was designed and powered to primarily evaluate the effect of the intervention on the onset, prevalence, and frequency of illicit drug use over a 2-year period.Results: Intent-to-treat repeated-measures analyses on continuous measures of drug use revealed time X intervention effects on the number of drugs used (P

AB - Context: Selective interventions targeting personality risk are showing promise in the prevention of problematic drinking behavior, but their effect on illicit drug use has yet to be evaluated.Objective: To investigate the efficacy of targeted coping skills interventions on illicit drug use in adolescents with personality risk factors for substance misuse.Design: Randomized controlled trial.Setting: Secondary schools in London, United Kingdom.Participants: A total of 5302 students were screened to identify 2028 students aged 13 to 16 years with elevated scores on self-report measures of hopelessness, anxiety sensitivity, impulsivity, and sensation seeking. Seven hundred thirty-two students provided parental consent to participate in this trial.Intervention: Participants were randomly assigned to a control no-intervention condition or a 2-session group coping skills intervention targeting 1 of 4 personality profiles.Main Outcome Measures: The trial was designed and powered to primarily evaluate the effect of the intervention on the onset, prevalence, and frequency of illicit drug use over a 2-year period.Results: Intent-to-treat repeated-measures analyses on continuous measures of drug use revealed time X intervention effects on the number of drugs used (P

U2 - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.173

DO - 10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2009.173

M3 - Article

SN - 1538-3636

VL - 67

SP - 85

EP - 93

JO - Archives of General Psychiatry

JF - Archives of General Psychiatry

IS - 1

ER -