Depression Treatment for Low Income Substance Users

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Substance Use Disorder

In brief

The objective of the current study is to evaluate the effects of a brief, behavioral activation treatment (the Life Enhancement Treatment for Substance Use; LET'S ACT) on long term outcomes of substance use, HIV risk behaviors and mechanisms of treatment response (depressive symptoms, environmental reward, behavioral activation).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01189552

Run by

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

People needed

263

Starts

2010-10-01

Expected to finish

2015-06-01

Last updated by the study team

2017-02-23

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• between 18 and 65 years of age
• beginning their last month of residential treatment

You may not qualify if…

• limited mental competency [Mini Mental State Examination score < 23]
• psychosis
• the use of psychotropic medication for < 3 months
• the inability to give informed, voluntary, written consent to participate

Where it is running

• Salvation Army Harbor Light Treatment Center — Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
• University of Maryland — College Park, Maryland, United States

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