Alcohol and Employment

February 18, 2015 updated by: Maja Bæksgaard Hansen, University of Southern Denmark

Alcohol and Employment - a Randomized Controlled Trial

The purpose of the study is to determine whether welfare-to-work schemes combined with alcohol treatment are more efficient than a welfare-to-work scheme alone, for unemployed citizens with alcohol problems.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

Background and purpose: The Tryg Foundation Denmark has awarded funds for a study that tests how to most efficiently combine welfare-to-work schemes with efforts against alcoholism, in relation to a return to the labour market.

The study will be carried out in a number of Danish municipalities in the time frame 2011-2014.

The purpose of the study is to determine whether a welfare-to-work scheme combined with alcohol treatment is more efficient than a welfare-to-work scheme alone, for unemployed citizens with alcohol problems.

Design: If the welfare recipient meets the inclusion criteria, then the recipient is provided with information about the project by the caseworker. If the recipient wishes to participate in the project he/she is asked to fill out a consent form and a questionnaire regarding employment status, alcohol consumption, other habits of abuse, health status and background information.

Welfare recipients who do not wish to participate will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker.

The intervention is designed as a randomized controlled trial, where heavy drinkers who meet the inclusion criteria and wish to participate will be allocated to either:

A) An intervention group receiving welfare-to-work scheme combined with alcohol treatment.

or

B) A control group receiving only welfare-to-work scheme.

After 6 and 12 months there will be a follow-up where participants will be asked to answer a questionnaire with questions about their employment status, alcohol consumption, other habits of abuse, health status and background information.

In this study ANCOVA is chosen to analyses the effective of the intervention.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

113

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Denmark
    • Copenhagen K
      • Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, Denmark, 1353
        • National Institute of Public Health - University of Southern Denmark

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Participants must have an audit-score above 7.
  • Participants must be unemployed and receive welfare-to-work schemes when included.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Participants who have an audit-score below 8.
  • Participants who have a normal job.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Intervention group
Other: Intervention group
Alcohol treatment paralleling welfare-to-work participation: The participants are referred to the municipalities' outpatient alcohol treatment programmes and at the same time referred to an ordinary welfare-to-work programme.
Placebo Comparator: Intervention control
Control group
Other: Control group
The participants will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker. The intervention is no different than what the municipality would have offered if the participant was not part of the study.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change from baseline in the participant's employment status at 6 and 12 months.
Time Frame: 6 and 12 months

Change in the participant's employment status, i.e. a) ordinary job, b) change in the participant transfer payments or in other ways approaching the labour market.

Employment status is measured with self-reported questionnaires and with a number of administrative registers connected through each participant's personal identification number.
6 and 12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Change from baseline in the participant's alcohol consumption, health status and readiness for the labour market at 6 and 12 months.
Time Frame: 6 and 12 months
  1. Alcohol consumption is measured with The Alcohol Use Disorder Test (AUDIT) and with the average volume of alcohol per week.
  2. Health status is measured with the standardized instrument EQ5D and with questionnaire on self rated health.
  3. Readiness for the labour market is measured with five self rated questionnaires.
6 and 12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of Southern Denmark

Collaborators

TRYG Foundation

Investigators

  • Study Director: Morten Grønbæk, MD, PhD, Centre for Intervention Research in HEalth Promotion and Disease Prevention

Publications and helpful links

The person responsible for entering information about the study voluntarily provides these publications. These may be about anything related to the study.

General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start

October 1, 2011

Primary Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

October 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 12, 2011

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 11, 2011

First Posted (Estimate)

August 12, 2011

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

February 19, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

February 18, 2015

Last Verified

February 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 61110- 1986 (tryg, p7)

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