Impact of Group Motivational Interviewing and In-Home-Messaging-Devices for Dually Diagnosed Veterans

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Conditions studied: Alcohol Dependence, Dual Diagnosis, Drug Dependence

In brief

Two approaches for providing evidence-based substance abuse treatment (EBT), group motivational interviewing (GMI) and the In-Home-Messaging-Device (IHMD), are interventions that have the characteristic ability for increasing accessibility to evidence-based treatment among patients with substance use problems and are proposed for investigation. GMI is based on motivational interviewing, an intervention that has shown consistent significant effects in promoting treatment retention and reduced substance use among individuals with substance use disorders, and is delivered in a group format. IHMD is a user-friendly computerized Tele-mental Health communication tool that allows interaction through the telephone line between a Veteran and the health care provider in an individual's home or residential placement. The current proposal aims to determine whether GMI and IHMD lead to a significantly greater increase in treatment engagement and reduction in alcohol use compared to a treatment control condition (TCC) among Veterans with a substance use problem and a co-existing psychiatric disorder.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00706901

Run by

VA Office of Research and Development

People needed

180

Starts

2010-05-03

Expected to finish

2013-09-30

Last updated by the study team

2018-08-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• ability to provide informed consent
• reading level at least at the 5th grade level
• ability to identify at least one collateral contact
• ability to be contacted by telephone at follow-up
• access to a working telephone line in the home or residential placement
• alcohol use or alcohol and drug use in the 28 days prior to hospitalization and current alcohol dependence (or abuse) or alcohol and drug abuse

You may not qualify if…

• auditory or visual impairment that would interfere with study procedures
• scheduled for discharge within 72 hours of initial screening
• diagnosis of dementia
• inability to speak or understand English
• unable to access a landline telephone for the IHMD treatment group

Where it is running

• Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC — Charleston, South Carolina, United States

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