Behavioral Couples Therapy for Female Drug-Abusing Patients (CPW-D)

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Drug Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Individual Drug Counseling; Behavioral: Behavioral Couples Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01189305

1R01DA025618 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

In treating drug addiction, many studies of male patients show Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) helps the whole family (the drug abuser, the relationship partner, and their children) and is more effective than typical individual and group counseling. Only one study of BCT has been done with female drug-abusing patients, and results were promising but not definitive. The proposed study will test with married or cohabiting female drug-abusing patients whether BCT will produce more positive outcomes for the women, their male partners, and their children than standard individual counseling for the patient alone.

Enrollment: 185 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• female patients with primary drug abuse diagnosis & their relationship partners
• patient married or cohabiting with relationship partner
• partner without current alcohol or drug problem

Exclusion criteria

• both patient and partner without severe mental health disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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185 participants in 2 patient groups

Behavioral Couples Therapy

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Behavioral Couples Therapy

Individual Drug Counseling

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Individual Drug Counseling