Reinforcing Therapist Performance (RTP)

Chestnut Health Systems

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Use

Treatments: Behavioral: Incentive

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01016704

RTP-1

1R01AA017625-01 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The specific aims of the proposed study are to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of providing monetary incentives to therapists as a method to improve implementation of evidence-based treatments.

Enrollment: 105 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Must work at one of the participating demonstration sites funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment to deliver the Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach and/or Assertive Continuing Care.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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105 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Incentive

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Incentive