Testing Interventions to Reduce Alcohol Consumption Among Outpatients in a Dental Setting

Assess and Improve Patient's Self-reported Alcohol Consumption While Attending the Oral Medicine Clinic

The investigators wish to investigate the feasibility of using a web based drinking app (www.drinksmeter.com) to reduce alcohol consumption among patients attending an outpatient clinic in a dental setting.

Study Overview

• Status: Terminated
• Conditions: Mouth Diseases; Alcohol Addiction
• Intervention / Treatment: Device: Drinksmeter; Behavioral: Brief Advice of Alcohol Use

Detailed Description

Any intervention on alcohol use is relevant to patients attending an oral medicine clinic, as alcohol can contribute to/or worsen mouth disorders. For example, research confirms that white and red patches of the lining of the mouth in regular tobacco and alcohol users can change to mouth cancer. Many people do not know that drinking alcohol would increase their mouth cancer risk.

Any new or follow-up patients attending our clinic and reporting drinking over the recommended guidelines (as given by European Code Against Cancer) will be eligible to participate. The study will start on the first visit to the clinic and/or at their follow-up visit. For each volunteer the study will last 3 months. Participants will be allocated to two groups, those receiving routine brief counselling on the day of their visit and those to whom a web-based electronic tool to self-assess is introduced. They will be motivated to use it in the following weeks to reduce consumption . The study will evaluate alcohol consumption levels using tested questionnaires at base-line and exit.

The investigators will assess the feasibility of the use of an electronic tool in our study population, whether it provided better outcomes compared to standard care.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 10
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United Kingdom
  • Lambeth
    • London, Lambeth, United Kingdom, SE5 9RS
      • King's College Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 16 years to 75 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient attending the Department of Oral Medicine at King's College Hospital and consuming alcohol over recommended guidance (European Code Against Cancer)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient which cannot understand English
• Complete lack of IT literacy
• Patient in contact with a specialized alcohol service

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

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

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Drinksmeter; Web-based application delivering Identification and Brief Advice of Alcohol Use	Device: Drinksmeter; Web-based application delivering Identification and Brief Advice of Alcohol Use; Behavioral: Brief Advice of Alcohol Use; Lifestyle counseling regarding alcohol intake and completion of Audit-10 questionnaire done chair-side with clinician
Active Comparator: Brief Advice of Alcohol Use; Lifestyle counseling regarding alcohol intake and completion of Audit-10 questionnaire done chair-side with clinician	Behavioral: Brief Advice of Alcohol Use; Lifestyle counseling regarding alcohol intake and completion of Audit-10 questionnaire done chair-side with clinician

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Reduction in mean number of alcohol units consumed per week	Number of weekly alcohol units will be recorded before intervention and 3-6 months after intervention	6-12 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Improvement of AUDIT-10 (Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test) Questionnaire Score	AUDIT-10 questionnaire given before and after intervention. A total score is given for the questionnaire based on the answers given. This total score will be compared before and after.	6-12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: King's College Hospital NHS Trust
• Collaborators: South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
• Investigators: Study Director: Saman Warnakulasuriya, BDS,PhD,DSc, King's College London

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: October 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): August 1, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): August 1, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: February 16, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 24, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): March 2, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 11, 2019
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 10, 2019
• Last Verified: September 1, 2019

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: drinksmeter; alcohol counselling
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Mental Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Drinking Behavior; Alcohol-Related Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Stomatognathic Diseases; Alcohol Drinking; Alcoholism; Mouth Diseases
• Other Study ID Numbers: KCH 14-158

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

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