Improving Substance Abuse Counseling Adherence Using Web-based Videoconferencing

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Conditions studied: Substance Abuse Disorder

In brief

This research is being done to compare the effectiveness of standard on-site, in-person counseling with Internet web-based videoconferencing (e-therapy) in drug-dependent patients in opioid-agonist treatment programs. The study is looking to see if there are any differences in satisfaction or in treatment outcome if counseling sessions are given by e-therapy compared to standard, in-person counseling given in the clinic. The e-therapy happens in real time- it works very much like standard therapy in the clinic except that the patient is in his or her own home (or other convenient location outside the clinic) and talks to and sees the therapist through an Internet connection on the computer (the therapist will usually be at the clinic).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01142609

Run by

Johns Hopkins University

People needed

85

Starts

2009-12-01

Expected to finish

2012-08-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-04-04

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Access to a computer with Internet capability
• Full adherence to their routine counseling schedule over the previous 30-days
• Negative urine specimens over the previous 30-days
• Patient at ATS for 90 days

You may not qualify if…

• No access to a computer with Internet capability

Where it is running

• Addiction Treatment Services — Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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