Personalizing Treatment Delivery

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Anxiety Disorders and Symptoms; PTSD and Trauma-related Symptoms; Alcohol; Use, Problem; Alcohol Use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized intervention condition: Cognitive behavioral therapy skills; Behavioral: Tracking control condition: Supportive counseling; Behavioral: Therapeutic control condition: Cognitive behavioral therapy skills

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT05821634

4R00AA029459-03 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

STUDY00013899

Details and patient eligibility

About

Anxiety and anxiety-related disorders frequently co-occur with alcohol use problems resulting in an enormous humanitarian and economic cost to society. The proposed research will use digital technology to examine person-specific risk factors predicting problematic alcohol use in individuals vulnerable to anxiety and anxiety-related disorders and will use this information to design a personalized intervention for individuals seeking psychological treatment. Results from this research will integrate output from novel and innovative digital technology methods into psychotherapy, advancing research on personalized treatment and prevention efforts.

Enrollment: 81 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Access to a smart phone
• Between 18 and 65 years
• Clinically significant anxiety or trauma-related symptoms
• Alcohol use problems
• Interest in telehealth counseling
• Anticipated New Jersey or New York residence for the duration of the study

Exclusion criteria

• Currently receiving counseling
• Psychiatric medication that is not currently at a stable dose (or is not anticipated to remain at a stable dose for the duration of the study)
• Demonstrated indicators of more intensive or acute care
• Temporary residence within the state of New Jersey or New York or out-of-state residence from the state of New Jersey or New York

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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81 participants in 3 patient groups

Personalized intervention condition

Experimental group

Description:

This experimental condition will test a data-driven, person-specific intervention using CBT skills.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized intervention condition: Cognitive behavioral therapy skills

Therapeutic control condition

Active Comparator group

Description:

This control condition will provide an experimental comparison to test the process of personalization.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Therapeutic control condition: Cognitive behavioral therapy skills

Tracking control condition

Active Comparator group

Description:

This second control condition will provide an experimental comparison to test the effects of health-related tracking and therapeutic contact.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Tracking control condition: Supportive counseling