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Individualizing Incentives for Alcohol in the Severely Mentally Ill

NCT03481049 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 392

Last updated 2025-08-11

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Summary

The investigators will evaluate the efficacy of a 2 various contingency management (CM) interventions (High-Magnitude CM, Shaping CM) for treating heavy drinking among individuals with serious mental illness and alcohol dependence who are seen within the context of a community mental health center setting. Participants will be 400 adults diagnosed with serious mental illness and alcohol dependence and those who demonstrate heavy drinking during the first 4 weeks will be randomized to receive treatment conditions.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Usual CM

Behavioral reinforcement for alcohol abstinence

BEHAVIORAL

High-Magnitude CM

Behavioral reinforcement for alcohol abstinence

BEHAVIORAL

Shaping CM

Behavioral reinforcement for alcohol abstinence

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Washington State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael G McDonell, PhD · Washington State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-05
Primary Completion
2024-06-03
Completion
2024-11-22

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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