Impact of Personalized Feedback Alone on Substance Use Behaviors

University of Missouri (MU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Personalized feedback report; Behavioral: Personalized feedback report plus education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01501318

1200450

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions for risky substance use behaviors by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group.

Full description

Screening and brief intervention (SBIRT) generally involves universal screening for risky substance use behaviors in medical settings and the immediate provision of a 3-15 minute intervention to those found to be at risk. In this pilot study, the investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions in the field by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group. The goal is to create a cost-effective and sustainable system that provides consumers with tailored information that will help them both initiate and sustain the lifestyle changes necessary for improving their overall health.

Hypothesis 1: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will be associated with a reduction in risky substance use behaviors.

Hypothesis 2: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will have the same impact on behavior as that information plus a brief coach education session on risky substance use behaviors..

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 105 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Low level risky substance use

Exclusion criteria

• high substance use risk levels
• potential alcohol or drug addiction or dependence

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

Personalized feedback plus education

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants receive the personalized feedback report plus education. This is the currently implemented service approach.Treatment as usual with participants receiving a personalized feedback report about the risks associated with their current substance use behaviors and a brief (5-15 minute) motivational interviewing based education session provided by a trained health coach.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized feedback report plus education

Personalized feedback report alone

Experimental group

Description:

Provision of the personalized feedback report alone.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Personalized feedback report