Trial Testing the Effect of Strategies on Performance of Brief Intervention Programmes for Harmful Alcohol Consumption

Summary

The overall objective is to study if training and support, financial reimbursement and referral to an internet based brief intervention programme, singly or in combination, may increase implementation of evidence based methods of identification and brief intervention for excessive alcohol consumption in routine primary health care.

Conditions

• Alcoholism

Interventions

OTHER

Training and support (T&S)

Two face-to-face educational meetings of at least one hour and a maximum of 2 hours, and one telephone support call of at least ten minutes and a maximum of 30 minutes. The telephone call will be offered to one of the GPs ('leader'). Depending on the needs of the PHCU, one additional face to face training (1 to 2 hours) may be offered. The time interval between meetings will be on average 2 weeks. The training sessions will address improving knowledge, skills, attitudes, and perceived barriers and facilitators by combining theory and practice-based training.

OTHER

Financial incentive

Groups will receive a financial incentive depending on their screening and brief intervention activities. They will be paid for the performance, with the country dependent system of pay (fee for item or fee for achieving set rates) and based on normal practices and financial rates for financial incentives for clinical preventive activities.

OTHER

E-SBI (online screening and brief intervention)

Referring identified at-risk patients to an approved e-SBI programme, which will be either country specific (where these exist) or based on the WHO e-SBI programme (Poland).

Sponsors & Collaborators

• European Commission

  collaborator OTHER

• Stichting Katholieke Universiteit

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne

  collaborator OTHER

• King's College London

  collaborator OTHER

• Göteborg University

  collaborator OTHER

• Linkoeping University

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• Department of Health, Generalitat de Catalunya

  collaborator OTHER_GOV

• State Agency for Solving Alcohol Problems

  collaborator OTHER

• University College, London

  collaborator OTHER

• Maastricht University

  collaborator OTHER

• Pomeranian Medical University Szczecin

  collaborator OTHER

• Fundacion Clinic per a la Recerca Biomédica

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Preben - Bendtsen, MD · Linkoeping University

• Fredrik - Spak, MD · Göteborg University

• Peter - Anderson, MD · Maastricht University

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2012-01-31

Primary Completion

2014-05-31

Completion

2014-12-31

Countries

• Netherlands
• Poland
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

Study Locations