Effectiveness of Extended Telephone Monitoring (ETM)

University of Pennsylvania

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Conditions

Alcohol Dependence

Treatments

Behavioral: Telephone Monitoring and Feedback

Behavioral: Telephone Monitoring and Counseling

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT00194103

708753

R01AA014850 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of extended telephone monitoring for alcohol-dependent patients receiving intensive outpatient treatment. It is hypothesized that telephone monitoring will produce better alcohol use outcomes relative to treatment as usual. It is also hypothesized that adaptive telephone monitoring plus brief counseling will produce better alcohol use outcomes over time relative to telephone monitoring plus feedback only.

Enrollment

252 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 70 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

enrolled in Intensive Outpatient substance abuse treatment for at least 2 and no more than 4 weeks at study entry
qualify for a current DSM-IV diagnosis of alcohol dependence (during the month prior to entrance into the IOP or detoxification program prior to IOP);
willingness to participate in research and be randomized;
4th grade reading level (as determined by the Slosson Oral Reading Test; Slosson, 1963);
able to provide the names of several informants who will know his/her whereabouts during the follow-up period

Exclusion criteria

acute medical or psychiatric problems that preclude outpatient treatment (e.g., in a psychotic episode and not stabilized on medication);
IV heroin use during the past year;
anticipated involvement in other forms of intensive treatment (e.g., inpatient) during the 6-month period after enrollment.