Case Management for Crack Users Who Seek Treatment in CAPSad in Brazil

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a Case Management (CM) intervention in crack users applied in Psychosocial Care Centers - Alcohol and Drugs (CAPSad) by trained social workers, in comparison to CAPSad conventional treatment on 30 and 90 days, considering the following outcomes: treatment retention, abstinence and changes in severity scores of the sixth version of Addiction Severity Index (ASI6) scale. The study hypothesis are: 1) The CM is going to improve the retention of crack users (cases) during the 3-month follow-up compared with usual care (controls); 2)Individuals who received the intervention with GC are going to present a higher rate of abstinence; 3)The summary scores of the ASI6 will be significantly lower in cases than in controls, at the end of 3 months follow-up.

Conditions

• Crack Abuse or Dependence

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Case Management (Strength-Based)

To improve the cases sharing between CAPSad and other health institutions and individuals and increase the strengths of the patient to cope with problems related to the crack use.

BEHAVIORAL

Usual Treatment

The usual treatment used for regular patients of CAPSad

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre

  collaborator OTHER

• Brazilian Secretariat for Drug Policies (SENAD)

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Federal University of Bahia

  collaborator OTHER

• Federal University of Espirito Santo

  collaborator OTHER

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

  collaborator OTHER

• Faculdade de Medicina do ABC

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Brasilia

  collaborator OTHER

• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Flavio Pechansky, PhD · Center for Drug and Alcohol Research (CPAD) of Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

SINGLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-10-31

Primary Completion

2012-08-31

Completion

2012-08-31

Countries

• Brazil

Study Locations