A Web App for Patients With Alcohol and Drug Use Problems in Primary Care

Behavior Therapy Associates, LLP

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drug Abuse; Alcohol Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Web app

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01830114

1R43AA022024-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

CheckupAndChoicesPilot

Details and patient eligibility

About

The objective of this pilot study is to evaluate the feasibility and technical merit of a web application for patients in primary care called Check-up and Choices (CC).

Full description

The overall objective of this project is to develop, evaluate, and disseminate a web application called Check-up and Choices (CC). CC will be developed for use in primary care. It would tightly integrate screening for heavy drinking and drug use, a brief motivational intervention for hazardous or heavy drinkers, a moderation training protocol for less dependent problem drinkers, and an abstinence-oriented protocol for more dependent drinkers and drug abusers. The brief motivational intervention will be tailored to the patient's age. Its purpose will be to motivate problem drinkers to change their drinking. The action-oriented moderation and abstinence protocols are cognitive-behavioral interventions (CBIs) that provide patients with the skills to maximize their chances of success with changing their drinking and/or drug use.

The investigators have already developed these elements but they are not integrated into a single program with appropriate branching between them. Nor has the content been tailored for use in primary care.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 75 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• physicians,
• nurses,
• nurse practitioners,
• physician's assistants,
• psychologists embedded in primary care settings, and
• other mental health counselors embedded in primary care settings.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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10 participants in 1 patient group

Web app evaluation group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Web app