Screening Brief Intervention Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) in New Mexico

Friends Research Institute

Status: Completed

Conditions: HIV Risk Behavior; Drug Abuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Counselor delivered brief intervention; Behavioral: Computerized brief intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT01131520

R01DA026003 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

08-08-173

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness in reducing drug use and its associated problems of a brief intervention for drug use delivered by a behavioral health counselor as compared to a brief intervention delivered by a computerized intervention.

Full description

Drug use is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Efforts to develop and rigorously evaluate methods to provide Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for drug users are needed. Computerized screening and brief interventions in particular have the potential to circumvent some of the potential problems of integrating SBIRT delivered by a counselor into busy primary care settings. These interventions may reduce drug use among individuals who are using drugs but are not yet drug dependent.

Enrollment: 360 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 years or older
• Moderate risk category on the ASSIST scores

Exclusion criteria

• planning to move out of New Mexico in the next year
• receipt of formal drug abuse treatment or a brief intervention for drug use in the past month.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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360 participants in 2 patient groups

Computerized Brief Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Computerized one-session brief intervention for drug use

Treatment:

Behavioral: Computerized brief intervention

Counselor delivered brief intervention

Active Comparator group

Description:

This is a brief intervention focused on drug use delivered by a behavioral health counselor and based on motivational interviewing

Treatment:

Behavioral: Counselor delivered brief intervention