Addiction Risk: Psychoeducational Intervention to Change Risk Perception Among Alcohol Patients in Residential Treatment

University of Konstanz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Alcohol Use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Cognitive Training; Behavioral: Psychoeducational Group Intervention on Alcohol Drinking Related to Stress

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03339674

OD 113/2-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Based on previous research (Odenwald & Semrau, 2012) the investigators know that psychoeducation on comorbid mental disorders during residential alcohol detoxification can improve subsequent treatment utilization. In this study they will study a hypothesized psychological mechanism that contributes to this behavior change.

The investigators will recruit alcohol dependent patients in residential detox treatment who all receive Treatment as Usual. Participants will be randomly assigned to an additional psychoeducational group therapy (intervention group) or to an additional neuropsychological group training (control group). Measurements will take place on the day before study inclusion, one week later and one month after release from index residential treatment. Measurements will include alcohol-related risk perception, alcohol use, treatment motivation, comorbid psychiatric symptoms and whether the patient has regularly completed treatment and whether he/she has been transferred to subsequent treatment. Furthermore, six months after release from index treatment information on re-admission to the clinic is assessed from patient files.

The investigators hypothesize that the behavioral effects of psychoeducational group intervention will be mediated by adaptive changes of the individual's alcohol-related risk perception.

Enrollment: 144 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Alcohol Dependence (according to ICD-10)

Exclusion criteria

• treatment episode is acute crisis intervention
• acute psychosis
• acute suicidality
• no command of German language (reading writing)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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144 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Psychoeducational Group Intervention on Alcohol Drinking Related to Stress: Psychological group intervention with 3 sessions of 60 min (Odenwald \& Semrau, 2012). Contains psychoeducation on alcohol drinking related to stress and PTSD.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Psychoeducational Group Intervention on Alcohol Drinking Related to Stress

Control

Active Comparator group

Description:

Cognitive Training: Psychological group intervention with 3 sessions of 60 min. The content is paper-and-pencil based cognitive training of memory and attention functions.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Cognitive Training