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Project SHARE (Senior Health and Alcohol Risk Education)

NCT00107640 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1186

Last updated 2012-08-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Older adults become more sensitive to alcohol, and alcohol also interacts adversely with their common medical conditions and medications. The aim of Project SHARE (Senior Health and Alcohol Risk Education) is to see whether patient and provider education can decrease risky alcohol use and reduce health care costs in persons 60 years of age and older.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Consumption

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Patient-provider education

Experimental patients received an intervention consisting of the following components: written reports and educational materials, a telephone health educator intervention (at baseline, 3 and 6 months), and a brief provider intervention.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Ettner, PhD · University of California, Los Angeles

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2005-05-31
Primary Completion
2008-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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