Adaptive Interventions for Problem Drinkers

Summary

The purpose of this study is to understand how certain interventions help people reduce or quit their drinking and how certain interventions may help best at certain points in time in the change process.

Conditions

• Alcohol-Related Disorders
• Alcohol Use Disorders
• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcoholism
• Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Brief Advice

Brief Advice (BA) consists of a 20-minute session delivered by a study therapist, adhering to the NIAAA's Clinician Guide to Problem Drinkers. It includes personalized, normative feedback based on NIAAA drinking norms, goal selection, instructions on self-monitoring, discussion of drink reduction strategies, and distribution of the NIAAA bibliotherapy guide.

BEHAVIORAL

Motivational Interviewing

Motivational Interviewing will consist of standard techniques, such as developing discrepancy, enhancing motivation, and developing a change plan, that have been adapted to treatment for problem drinkers.

BEHAVIORAL

Behavioral Self-Control Training

Behavioral Self-Control Training will consist of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy adapted to problem drinkers, whose core components include a functional analysis, skills training, daily self-monitoring, homework, and graded exposures and mastery of high risk situations.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

  collaborator NIH

• Northwell Health

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jon Morgenstern, Ph.D. · Northwell Health

• Nehal P Vadhan · Northwell Health

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

FACTORIAL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

75 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2015-03-31

Primary Completion

2019-03-31

Completion

2019-05-31

Countries

• United States

Study Locations