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MADD Materials for Underage Alcohol Use

N/A
Waitlist Available
Led By Robert Turrisi, Ph.D.
Research Sponsored by Penn State University
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial
Must have
* Parent and teen both consent (forming a dyad testing unit); They are part of GfK's KnowledgePanel pool of participants
Be younger than 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up baseline, 6 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up
Awards & highlights
No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

This trial is testing a brief parent-intervention's ability to change adolescents' drinking, impaired driving, and riding with impaired driver behaviors in order to address the public health problem of drunk driving.

Eligible Conditions
  • Underage Alcohol Use
  • Underage Drinking
  • Driving Under the Influence (DUI)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~baseline, 6 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and baseline, 6 month follow-up, and 12 month follow-up for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary study objectives
Declining to Ride With Impaired Drivers
Typical Weekend Drinking (DDQ)
Secondary study objectives
Willingness to Ride in a Car With an Impaired Driver

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group
All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

3Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Group I: Surgeon General MaterialsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Information published by the Surgeon General about teens and drinking
Group II: MADD MaterialsExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Handbook developed by MADD and the PI to guide parents in discussing underage drinking, behaviors, and consequences with their teens
Group III: ControlActive Control1 Intervention
TAU
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
MADD Materials
2017
N/A
~2360
Surgeon General Materials
2017
N/A
~2360

Find a Location

Who is running the clinical trial?

Penn State UniversityLead Sponsor
367 Previous Clinical Trials
125,350 Total Patients Enrolled
National Institutes of Health (NIH)NIH
2,806 Previous Clinical Trials
8,148,238 Total Patients Enrolled
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)NIH
833 Previous Clinical Trials
1,080,198 Total Patients Enrolled
~297 spots leftby Oct 2025