Brief Interventions for Drop-out Re-engagement

Adaptive Brief Interventions for Drop-out Re-engagement

We will evaluate a series of interventions intended to help individuals who drop out of substance abuse treatment re-engage in order to improve treatment outcome.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Substance Abuse
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: standard care follow up; Behavioral: brief (behavioral therapy); Behavioral: Drop out re-engagement motivational intervention

Detailed Description

We propose a 5-year Stage I behavioral therapy development study to: 1) prospectively evaluate risk factors for premature drop-out from outpatient treatment; 2) develop and test a manual of single session phone-and office-based interventions to re-engage these individual in treatment.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 299
• Phase: Phase 1

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Connecticut
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
      • APT Foundation
    • New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 06510
      • Connecticut Mental Health Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 65 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• admission to outpatient treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

• need for hospitalization

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: None (Open Label)

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Standard care follow up; Standard care counselor follow up care phone calls or letters.	Behavioral: standard care follow up; routine counselor phone calls and letters
Experimental: Drop out reengagement motivational intervention; Single session office based or phone based motivational counseling session designed to promote participant re-engagement in standard treatment.	Behavioral: brief (behavioral therapy); up t 3 sessions of phone or office based counseling sessions to promote re-engagement in treatment.; Behavioral: Drop out re-engagement motivational intervention; Up to 3 phone or office based counseling sessions to promote reengagement in treatment

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
retention into outpatient treatment	4, 8, 12, 24 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
substance abuse	4, 8,12,and 24 weeks
psychiatric symptoms	4, 8, 12, and 24 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Yale University
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Sam Ball, PhD, Yale School of Medicine

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: November 1, 2004
• Primary Completion (Actual): November 1, 2009
• Study Completion (Actual): November 1, 2009

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 7, 2006
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 10, 2006
• First Posted (Estimate): July 11, 2006

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): September 17, 2014
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 16, 2014
• Last Verified: September 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: satisfaction; counseling; coping; behavior therapy; drug abuse therapy; outpatient care; therapy compliance; clinical trial phase I; outcomes research; social psychology; patient oriented research
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 101010101; 5P50DA009241-120012; 5P50DA009241 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No