Project Health Link: Connecting Patients With Services
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Alcohol Abuse
In brief
This study will compare three alternative interventions in the emergency department (ED) to promote substance abuse assessment, referral, and treatment entry: 1) a 5 session strengths-based case management model (SBCM); 2) a 2-session motivational enhancement therapy (MET); or 3) a one-time brief informational feedback (BIF) session. The primary outcome variables for this trial include follow-through on receiving an assessment and referral, and treatment engagement. Additional outcomes include degree of treatment completion, alcohol-related measures, health service utilization, health status changes, and psychosocial factors.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00234221
- Run by
- University of Michigan
- People needed
- 686
- Starts
- 2005-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2009-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-04-13
Who can join
Age: 19 and older, up to 60. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- (1) adults age 19 - 60 presenting to the Emergency Department at Hurley Medical Center within 24 hours of an injury; (2) ability to provide informed consent.
- For intervention portion of the project: (1) meets DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence in the following year. (Patients who meet abuse/dependence criteria for alcohol may also be using other drugs. They will be included in the study only if they do not meet criteria for past year drug abuse/dependence).
You may not qualify if…
- (1) adult patients who do not understand English; (2) prisoners; (3) pregnant women; (4) institutionalized patients (e.g. nursing home residents); (5) adults classified by medical staff as "Level 1 trauma"; (6) adults deemed unable to provide informed consent (e.g. intoxication, mental incompetence, under guardianship); (7) patients treated in the ED for suicide attempts and sexual assault; (8) patients meeting past year drug abuse/dependence criteria; and (9) patients who have been in treatment for alcohol or other drug abuse/dependence in the previous year.
Where it is running
- Hurley Medical Center — Flint, Michigan, United States
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