Brief Alcohol Treatment for Alcoholism
What You Need to Know Before You Apply
What is the purpose of this trial?
The goal of this study is to develop and test a brief behavioral treatment for women Veterans with alcohol use in primary care. The study involves a development phase, an open trial phase, and a pilot randomized controlled trial. The main questions it aims to answer are:
* Is the treatment feasible and acceptable to women Veteran primary care patients?
* Can the treatment help reduce alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, and improve quality of life? Researchers will compare the new treatment to usual treatment that primary care patients would normally receive. Participants will be asked to participate in either the new behavioral treatment or usual primary care treatment and attend 3 appointments to answer questions about their alcohol use, quality of life, other mental health symptoms, and what they thought of their behavioral treatment.
Who Is on the Research Team?
Katherine A Buckheit, PhD
Principal Investigator
Veterans Health Research Institute of Central New York, Inc.
Are You a Good Fit for This Trial?
Inclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
Timeline for a Trial Participant
Screening
Participants are screened for eligibility to participate in the trial
Development
Development of a brief behavioral treatment for women Veterans with alcohol use in primary care
Open Trial
Participants attend 4-6 behavioral health appointments to manage unhealthy alcohol use
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial
Comparison of new behavioral treatment to usual primary care treatment
Follow-up
Participants are monitored for changes in quality of life and alcohol-related problems
What Are the Treatments Tested in This Trial?
Interventions
- Brief Alcohol Treatment for Women Veterans in Primary Care
How Is the Trial Designed?
2
Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Active Control
Participants in this arm will attend 4-6 30-minute behavioral health appointments with a behavioral health provider in an integrated primary care setting. All participants will attend 4 core alcohol-focused appointments focused on providing information and skills to manage unhealthy alcohol use. Participants may elect to attend up to 2 additional optional appointments focused on supplemental strategies to manage alcohol use or to address co-occurring mental and behavioral health concerns.
Primary care usual care consists of universal annual alcohol screening; those who are identified as at-risk receive a brief advice intervention from their primary care provider and may be offered an integrated primary care referral. The brief advice intervention is standardized and triggered automatically by a positive screen. Integrated primary care consists of brief assessment and intervention with licensed, independent behavioral health providers. Patients may decline integrated primary care referrals, complete several appointments, and/or be referred to specialty treatment
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Who Is Running the Clinical Trial?
Syracuse VA Medical Center
Lead Sponsor
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
Collaborator
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