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Brief Alcohol Intervention in General Hospitals

NCT00423904 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1035

Last updated 2007-01-18

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the study is to reveal the most promising procedure for implementing alcohol screening and intervention in general hospitals and to find out, if and to which extent non-specialist health professionals can be qualified to carry out motivational intervention on their own or if there is a need for a specialized counseling services. In a randomized controlled trial, patients recruited in general hospitals and fulfilling criteria for alcohol dependence, alcohol abuse, at-risk drinking or heavy episodic drinking will be allocated to three conditions: (1) Intervention by a liaison service (LC): Counselling based on the Transtheoretical Model of behaviour change (TTM) which will be provided by staff of the study (psychologists/ social worker) trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI), (2) Intervention by hospital physicians (PC): Counselling will be provided by hospital physicians trained in MI, and (3) Control group (CC): Treatment as usual, assessment only. Outcome assessment will be conducted after 12 months and includes abstinent point prevalence rates, drinks per day, help-seeking, stage progress and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Conditions

  • Alcohol Dependence
  • Alcohol Abuse
  • At-Risk-Drinking
  • Heavy Episodic Drinking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • German Federal Ministry of Education and Research

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University Medicine Greifswald

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jennis Freyer-Adam, Dr · University Medicine Greifswald

  • Ulfert Hapke, Dr · University of Applied Sciences Muenster

  • Ulrich John, Prof Dr · University Medicine Greifswald

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
ECT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
64 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2001-10-31
Completion
2005-08-31

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