Motivational Interviewing to Acutely Admitted Psychiatric Patients With Comorbid Substance Use

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance-Related Disorders

Treatments: Other: Treatment as usual; Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00184223

GB-MI-2004

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose for this study is to determine whether 2x45 minutes Motivational Interviewing given during hospital stay to acutely admitted psychiatric patients with substance use problems, can reduce substance use after discharge.

Full description

The aims of the study are in a randomized controlled trial to compare the effects of 2 x 45 minutes Motivational Interviewing and standard treatment with standard treatment alone.All patients acutely admitted to Østmarka Psychiatric Hospital are evaluated for substance use, and all patients with substance use that give their consent to participate are randomized to Motivational Interviewing and standard treatment or standard treatment alone.

Substance use and function will be followed for two years.Admittances to hospital and contacts with primary health care for five years.

Enrollment: 135 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• substance use
• acutely admitted to psychiatric hospital

Exclusion criteria

• dementia
• serious brain damage
• not speaking Norwegian or English

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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135 participants in 2 patient groups

motivational interviewing

Experimental group

Description:

Manual guided motivational interviewing in addition to treatment as usual

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual

Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing

control group

Other group

Description:

treatment as usual

Treatment:

Other: Treatment as usual