Brief Intervention to Reduce Drinking Among Batterers

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 2

Conditions: Alcohol Use; Intimate Partner Violence

Treatments: Behavioral: Standard Batterer Intervention; Behavioral: Brief Alcohol Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT00539955

R01AA014193 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

NIAAA-STU_014193_0111-001-M

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this project is to examine whether, relative to standard care, violence and alcohol use outcomes can be improved by a brief, motivationally based adjunct alcohol treatment for men enrolled in batterer intervention programs. We hypothesize that men randomized to also receive the brief alcohol intervention will have better partner violence and alcohol use outcomes than men who are randomized to the batterer intervention program alone.

Enrollment: 253 estimated patients

Sex: Male

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Participation in a batterer intervention program
• Hazardous drinking

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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253 participants in 2 patient groups

1

Other group

Description:

Standard 40 hour state-mandated batterer intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Standard Batterer Intervention

2

Other group

Description:

Brief alcohol intervention combined with standard batterer intervention

Treatment:

Behavioral: Brief Alcohol Intervention