Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting

The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Status and phase: Terminated; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Substance Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Motivational interviewing and referral to treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01661517

X110829003

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will be a quality improvement project to review the effectiveness and barriers to effectiveness of a new clinical program in the emergency room to provide substance use screening followed by brief motivational interviewing and referral to treatment for patients who meet criteria for problem substance use. This study will consist of a chart review of the results of the screens performed by substance use counselors and correlating them to institutional variables such as wait time in the emergency room and length of stay as well as to patient variables obtained by chart review such as medical diagnosis and sociodemographic variables.

Enrollment: 5,271 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 19 and older Presentation to UAB Emergency Department

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 19 Prisoners

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5,271 participants in 1 patient group

Lifestyle Counseling

Experimental group

Description:

motivational interviewer

Treatment:

Behavioral: Motivational interviewing and referral to treatment