PURPOSE: A Social Media Intervention for Parent Support

描述（由申请人提供）：父母的支持已被确定为青少年物质使用的最重要的保护因素之一，以及对诊断为物质使用障碍（SUD）的青少年有利的治疗结果的重要预测因素。然而，许多父母并不完全了解其子女的药物使用问题，也没有获得所需的信息和支持，以便有效地协助或与其子女一起解决药物滥用问题。我们建议开发一个社交媒体干预父母与响应父母联合在线支持和教育（目的），使青少年的父母在治疗SUD，使他们能够有效地支持他们的孩子的恢复。PURPOSE利用现在常用的社交媒体平台（Facebook）提供一个安全灵活的空间，让父母分享，学习，并从面临类似问题的其他响应父母那里获得支持。以行为改变的认知行为理论为基础，目的将使用同龄人领导的在线团体来促进父母对青少年康复的支持和参与。因此，拟议的研究有以下目的：（1）开发目的，一种基于社交媒体的干预措施，为患有SUD的青少年儿童的父母/监护人提供信息和应对工具;（2）确定使用在线同伴引导干预措施的目的的可行性和可接受性;以及（3）进行一项试点对照试验，以提供关于这种干预的数据，从而确定基于社交媒体的父母支持小组参与是否会对父母的结果产生积极影响（减少耻辱和痛苦，改善父母的监督，并增加青少年治疗的参与）和青少年的结果（治疗保留和禁欲）。研究结果将扩大关于父母支持在青少年康复中的作用的科学文献，并响应NIDA的呼吁，即增加对社交媒体的可行性和实用性的理解，以加强传统治疗和自助团体。这些试点工作还将为正式试验提供基础，该试验调查在线社交网络对SUD青少年及其父母的持久认知，情感和行为变化的短期和长期影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Parent support has been identified as one of the most important protective factors for adolescent substance use as well as an important predictor for favorable treatment outcomes for adolescents diagnosed with substance use disorder (SUD). Nevertheless, many parents are not fully aware of the substance use problem of their children, nor do they have the information and support they need in order to effectively assist or work with their children addressing substance abuse problems. We propose to develop a social media intervention Parents United with Responsive Parents for Online Support and Education (PURPOSE) to empower parents of adolescents in treatment for SUD so that they can effectively support their child's recovery. PURPOSE takes advantage of the now commonly used social media platform (Facebook) to provide a safe and flexible space where parents share, learn, and receive support from other responsive parents facing similar problems. Grounded in cognitive behavioral theories of behavior change, PURPOSE will use peer-led online groups to promote parental support and involvement in adolescent recovery. Thus, the proposed study has the following aims: (1) to develop PURPOSE, a social-media based intervention that provides information and coping tools for parents/guardians of adolescent children with a SUD; (2) to determine the feasibility and acceptability of PURPOSE that uses online peer-led intervention delivery; and (3) to conduct a pilot control trial to provide preliminry data on this intervention so as to determine if social media-based parent support group involvement positively impacts parent outcomes (reduced stigma and distress, improved parent monitoring, and increased engagement in adolescent treatment) and adolescent outcomes (treatment retention and abstinence). Results will expand the scientific literature on the role of parental support in adolescent recovery as well as respond to NIDA's call for increased understanding of the feasibility and utility of social media to enhance traditional treatment and self-help groups. These pilot efforts will also provide the groundwork for a formal trial investigating the short- and long-term impact of online social networking on lasting cognitive, emotional, and behavioral change in SUD adolescents and their parents.