Behavioral Treatment for Substance Abuse

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance-Related Disorders

Treatments: Behavioral: Mind-body Bridging; Behavioral: Substance Abuse Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01438346

IRB00027696

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pilot project will evaluate a new mind-body intervention called Mind-Body Bridging (MBB) for reducing substance abuse problems in women who are undergoing a substance abuse treatment program. The main hypothesis is that MBB will be more effective than the control (standard) intervention program in helping people reduce their craving for illicit substances and/or alcohol.

Full description

This is a randomized clinical pilot study in which MBB will be compared with a standard treatment program for substance abuse. Both groups will run concurrently over the course of a 10-week period, twice per week.

Enrollment: 38 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Substance abuse or dependence
• Resident/day client in the House of Hope substance abuse treatment program
• Minimum stay in treatment at House of Hope for 3.5 months
• Fluent in English

Exclusion criteria

• Psychosis
• Suicide risk
• Dementia
• Significant withdrawal risk
• Severe, unstable depression
• Requires intensive mental health treatment
• Cognitive impairment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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38 participants in 2 patient groups

Substance Abuse Education (SED)

Active Comparator group

Description:

The Substance Abuse Education (SED) group will serve as the control intervention in which participants will receive instruction on a variety of topics included in the substance abuse treatment program curriculum. These will include, but are not limited to, information about anger management, smoking cessation, women's issues, and stress management, and approaches to help reduce cravings. Each week the TAU group will meet and a House of Hope (HOH) clinical staff member will discuss the above and related issues and how these may help individuals deal with their substance abuse and related psychological issues.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Substance Abuse Education

Mind-body Bridging (MBB)

Experimental group

Description:

Participants in the experimental Mind-Body Bridging (MBB) group, in addition to their usual treatment for substance abuse, will additionally receive instruction on the basics of MBB, and will learn MBB techniques to help deal with their cravings and comorbid psychological conditions. A workbook will be incorporated into the curriculum to provide MBB participants with daily exercises and activities to help facilitate adherence to the MBB program.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mind-body Bridging