Brief Interventions for Drop-out Re-engagement

Yale University

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: standard care follow up; Behavioral: Drop out re-engagement motivational intervention; Behavioral: brief (behavioral therapy)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00350571

5P50DA009241 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

101010101

5P50DA009241-120012

Details and patient eligibility

About

We will evaluate a series of interventions intended to help individuals who drop out of substance abuse treatment re-engage in order to improve treatment outcome.

Full description

We propose a 5-year Stage I behavioral therapy development study to: 1) prospectively evaluate risk factors for premature drop-out from outpatient treatment; 2) develop and test a manual of single session phone-and office-based interventions to re-engage these individual in treatment.

Enrollment: 299 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• admission to outpatient treatment

Exclusion criteria

• need for hospitalization

Trial design

299 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard care follow up

Active Comparator group

Description:

Standard care counselor follow up care phone calls or letters.

Treatment:

Behavioral: standard care follow up

Drop out reengagement motivational intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Single session office based or phone based motivational counseling session designed to promote participant re-engagement in standard treatment.

Treatment:

Behavioral: brief (behavioral therapy)

Behavioral: Drop out re-engagement motivational intervention