Impact of Personalized Feedback Alone on Substance Use Behaviors

Brief Education to Reduce Health Care Consumers' Risky Substance Use Behaviors: How Brief is Brief?

The investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions for risky substance use behaviors by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Substance Abuse
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Personalized feedback report plus education; Behavioral: Personalized feedback report

Detailed Description

Screening and brief intervention (SBIRT) generally involves universal screening for risky substance use behaviors in medical settings and the immediate provision of a 3-15 minute intervention to those found to be at risk. In this pilot study, the investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions in the field by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group. The goal is to create a cost-effective and sustainable system that provides consumers with tailored information that will help them both initiate and sustain the lifestyle changes necessary for improving their overall health.

Hypothesis 1: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will be associated with a reduction in risky substance use behaviors.

Hypothesis 2: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will have the same impact on behavior as that information plus a brief coach education session on risky substance use behaviors..

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 40
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Missouri
    • Columbia, Missouri, United States, 65212
      • University of Missouri Hospital ER

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 105 years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Low level risky substance use

Exclusion Criteria:

• high substance use risk levels
• potential alcohol or drug addiction or dependence

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: PREVENTION
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: DOUBLE

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
ACTIVE_COMPARATOR: Personalized feedback plus education; Participants receive the personalized feedback report plus education. This is the currently implemented service approach.Treatment as usual with participants receiving a personalized feedback report about the risks associated with their current substance use behaviors and a brief (5-15 minute) motivational interviewing based education session provided by a trained health coach.	Behavioral: Personalized feedback report plus education; Participants receive the personalized feedback report plus education. This is the currently implemented service approach.
EXPERIMENTAL: Personalized feedback report alone; Provision of the personalized feedback report alone.	Behavioral: Personalized feedback report; Participants receive the personalized feedback report but no additional education.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Substance use behaviors and consequences	Interview questionnaire includes items concerning substance use behaviors (e.g., the number of drinks in the last 7 days) and consequences {e.g., ''During the past month, how often have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of your use of alcohol?'	1 month follow-up

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Substance use behavioral intentions	Interview questionnaire that asks participants about their memory of the materials provided in the intervention, their motivation toward change, and their self-reported change efforts.	1 month follow-up

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Missouri-Columbia
• Collaborators: Institute of Mental Health, Singapore; University of Missouri, St. Louis
• Investigators: Principal Investigator: Matthew G Hile, PhD, Missouri Institute of Mental Health

Publications and helpful links

Helpful Links

• MOSBIRT expands the existing continuum of care to include screening individuals for risky alcohol, tobacco, prescription and other drug use in general medical settings.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): November 1, 2012
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): November 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: December 23, 2011
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: December 23, 2011
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): December 29, 2011

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): September 30, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 29, 2016
• Last Verified: September 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: alcohol; SBIRT; drug abuse; brief intervention
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders
• Other Study ID Numbers: 1200450

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO