Clinical trial · Interventional
Pilot Test of Parent-Focused Cannabis-Related Actions and Practices Intervention for Adolescent Marijuana Abuse
Development of the Cannabis Actions and Practices (CAP): A Parent-Focused Intervention to Address Adolescent Marijuana Use
- Source
- ClinicalTrials.gov
- Retrieved
- Sep 8, 2026
- Layer
- normalized (units and labels harmonized; values unchanged)
- Run
- ING-CLINICALTRIALS-20260908-000001
Summary
Brief summary (as posted)
The randomized clinical trial involves the pilot-testing of a theory-guided, empirically based, and low-cost intervention designed for legal medical marijuana-using parents to enhance parenting behaviors that limit youth exposure to marijuana, reduce or halt youth marijuana use, and increase youth awareness of the harmful consequences of marijuana during the youth years. Parents will be randomized to an intervention condition or to a wait list control condition. Pre- and post-intervention assessments will evaluate parent and youth marijuana and other substance use, perceptions and attitudes about marijuana, parenting and family functioning, and youth behavioral health.
Conditions
Conditions (2)
Free-text conditions as registered, with the CancerIndex entity they were reconciled to and the match type.
| Condition (as posted) | Mapped entity | Match | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannabis Use Disorder, Mild | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
| Cannabis Use Disorder, Moderate | — | UNRESOLVED | — |
Interventions
Interventions (1)
| Intervention | Type | Mapped drug | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cannabis Actions and Practices Resource for Parents | Behavioral | — | UNRESOLVED |
Design
Arms and outcomes
Arms (2)
- type
- EXPERIMENTAL
- label
- CAP Intervention
- description
- CAP is a parent-focused intervention being developed to help parents in states with legalized medical marijuana to address adolescent marijuana use. The proposed intervention will address the effects of marijuana on adolescent behavioral health, brain development, and social functioning and enhance parent motivation to use CAP concepts. Guided by formative research, CAP will build skills and provide strategies to: (1) restrict adolescent exposure to cannabis products and parent cannabis use in the home, (2) improve parent communication about their own cannabis use and expectations about youth marijuana use, (3) improve monitoring, (4) increase positive reinforcement for youth abstinence, and (5) address parent negative emotions. Parents will meet in groups with an interventionist for two 75-minute sessions. Presentations, discussion, and roleplay will be used to help parents gain mastery of preventive parenting behaviors and related strategies to reduce adolescent marijuana use.
- interventionNames
- Behavioral: Cannabis Actions and Practices Resource for Parents
- type
- NO_INTERVENTION
- label
- Wait List
- description
- Parents randomly assigned to Wait List Delayed CAP (WL) will receive no intervention for the baseline to 3-month follow-up period. Thus, the WL condition will serve as a comparison group from baseline to the 3-month assessment point. After the 3-month follow-up assessment, WL parents will be offered the CAP intervention. The final assessment for the WL participants will function as a 3-month follow-up assessment, allowing us to aggregate data all 60 parent-adolescent dyads to conduct within group analyses of pre- to post-intervention change on key variables of interest.
Eligibility
Eligibility (as posted)
- Sex
- All
- Minimum age
- 13 Years
Show eligibility criteria text
Parent Inclusion Criteria: * Has a valid New Mexico medical marijuana card * A biological or adoptive parent, step-parent or other parent figure who serves as the primary caregiver of a 13- to 17-year-old adolescent * Parents and youth live together at least 40% of the time (i.e., minimum of 3 days per week) * Reside in the greater Albuquerque, New Mexico area * Has sufficient residential stability to permit probable contact at follow-up (e.g., not homeless at time of intake) * Has sufficient English language skills to participate in the interventions and complete assessments Adolescent inclusion criteria: * Reports marijuana use on at least one occasion * Has sufficient English language skills to complete assessments Parent exclusion Criteria: * Parent appears to have insufficient cognitive functioning to understand consent process, assessments and interventions * Currently in drug treatment for a cannabis or other substance use disorder, whether medical or non-medical, and (3) a spouse or parenting partner is already enrolled in the study. Adolescent exclusion criteria: * Has a valid New Mexico medical marijuana card * Reports weekly use of an illicit drug (i.e., excluding alcohol, tobacco, or marijuana) * Appears to have insufficient cognitive functioning to understand assent process and assessments * A sibling is already participating in the study
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