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Enhancing Addiction Treatment Through Psychoeducation

NCT07178158 · Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2026-02-23

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Summary

Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by a broad range of both apparent and subtle cognitive impairments in attention, memory, executive functions, and decision-making. These cognitive problems are clinically significant and may contribute to poor treatment outcomes in people with Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), such as a high risk of dropout, low treatment compliance, and shorter periods of abstinence. Studies on cognitive function in SUDs reveal that chronic use of drugs and alcohol can also negatively affect another crucial component of cognition: awareness, or metacognition. Metacognition is defined as an individual's ability to perceive and understand their cognitive functions and use this understanding to regulate them. One of the key consequences of metacognitive impairments is the lack of insight in people with SUDs, which adversely affects treatment outcomes. Substance users with poor metacognition are more reluctant to initiate or continue treatment and are more likely to deny their cognitive problems. Therefore, improving metacognition may remove or reduce motivational barriers to invest time and effort in the recovery process in general, and in the brain recovery process specifically. Despite the importance of neurocognition and metacognition in the recovery process for substance users, there is a dearth of interventions designed to target these functions.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Installing the Metacognium software app

Participants in the NIPA+TAU group will be sent two, URL's (one for iOS and one for Android) for installing the Metacognium software app, which hosts the four NIPA sessions. Participants will be provided with unique ID for registering and using the program on the Metacognium app. The NIPA sessions will be locked until participants have completed their baseline assessment. Once participants complete each NIPA session, they will receive an email and/or text notifying them that the next session is unlocked and that they can proceed to complete it.

OTHER

Continue treatment as usual

Continue your treatment schedule as usual with the for 4 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Virginia Commonwealth University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jasmin Vassileva, Ph.D. · Virginia Commonwealth University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2026-05-01
Primary Completion
2027-04-30
Completion
2027-04-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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