Substance Abuse Treatment to HIV Care (SAT2HIV): The Implementation & Sustainment Facilitation Experiment

RTI International

Status: Completed

Conditions: Substance Use

Treatments: Behavioral: ISF strategy; Behavioral: ATTC strategy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; NIH

Identifiers

NCT03120598

R01DA038146 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)

SAT2HIV-ISF

Details and patient eligibility

About

A cluster randomized experiment focused on testing the extent to which the organization-focused Implementation & Sustainment Facilitation (ISF) strategy is an effective adjunct to the staff-focused Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) strategy.

Full description

A cluster randomized experiment with 39 AIDS service organizations located across the United States. The overarching goal is to test the extent to which the organization-focused Implementation & Sustainment Facilitation (ISF) strategy is an effective adjunct to the staff-focused Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) strategy.

Enrollment: 190 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• AIDS service organizations have to

  1. serve a minimum of 100 individuals living with HIV/AIDS per year,

  2. have at least two frontline staff who were willing and able to be trained in the Motivational Interviewing-based Brief Intervention (MIBI) Experiment's MIBI for substance use, and

  3. have at least one leadership staff (i.e., supervisor, manager, director) willing and able to help ensure case-managers were given sufficient time for project participation.

     Exclusion Criteria:

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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190 participants in 2 patient groups

ATTC strategy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Behavioral: Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) strategy: A staff-focused strategy that includes 10 discrete strategies (e.g., centralized technical assistance, conduct educational meetings, provide ongoing consultation).

Treatment:

Behavioral: ATTC strategy

ISF strategy

Experimental group

Description:

Behavioral: Implementation \& Sustainment Facilitation (ISF) strategy: An organization-focused strategy that includes 7 discrete strategies (e.g., use of an implementation advisor, organize implementation team meetings, conduct cyclical small tests of change) and Addiction Technology Transfer Center (ATTC) strategy: A staff-focused strategy that includes 10 discrete strategies (e.g., centralized technical assistance, conduct educational meetings, provide ongoing consultation).

Treatment:

Behavioral: ISF strategy

Behavioral: ATTC strategy