3M Study - Maria Malmö Mobile Telephone Study

Region Skane

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Use Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Interactive voice response with personal feedback; Behavioral: Interactive voice response without personal feedback

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01706380

3M Study

Details and patient eligibility

About

The present study, in an out-patient setting for substance use treatment in adolescents, examines the effect on treatment retention of a mobile telephone follow-up technique (interactive voice response), with or without personal feedback. Subjects in treatment for substance use disorders will be followed by automated mobile telephone contact with questions about psychiatric symptoms and substance use, and the investigators hypothesize that this technique, including a personal feedback reporting back to the client whether his or her status is changing in one way or another, may increase the treatment retention, possibly by means of an intensified treatment contact.

Enrollment: 73 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 25 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient applying for substance use disorder treatment at out-patient facility Maria Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, who are less than 25 years old and who provide written informed consent to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who do not provide written informed consent to the study, or whose psychiatric condition or language difficulties make it impossible for them to understand patient information and give informed consent to the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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73 participants in 2 patient groups

Interactive voice response with personal feedback

Experimental group

Description:

Interactive voice response follows the client twice weekly for 3 months with respect to symptoms and substance use, in both arms. This intervention group also receives a personalized and automated feedback describing whether the symptom status of the patient is better, worse or equal, compared to the preceding follow-up.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interactive voice response with personal feedback

Interactive voice response without personal feedback

Active Comparator group

Description:

This control group is also followed with identical interactive voice response follow-up, addressing symptoms and substance use, but without the personal feedback.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Interactive voice response without personal feedback