Considering Healthier Drinking Options in Collaborative Care
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Alcohol Use Disorder
In brief
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a collaborative care intervention for evidence based management of alcohol use disorders in primary care settings within the Veterans Administration Puget Sound Health Care System (Seattle and American Lake Divisions). The study will test whether patients offered the collaborative care intervention have fewer heavy drinking days at 12 months follow-up and to be abstinent or drinking below recommended limits without problems.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01400581
- Run by
- Kaiser Permanente
- People needed
- 304
- Starts
- 2011-11-01
- Expected to finish
- 2015-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-09-12
Who can join
Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- AUDIT-C score 5 or more (modification described below)
- Age less than 65 at time of AUDIT-C screen (modification described below)
- Phone number available in electronic medical record
- Frequent heavy drinking reported during brief telephone screen (8 heavy drinking days in past 4 weeks, 5 or more drinks in a day for men, 4 or more for women; OR 4 heavy drinking days past four weeks and prior alcohol treatment or attendance at AA)
You may not qualify if…
- Missing address or phone number in electronic medical record
- Warning flag regarding violent behavior in medical record
- Patient participating in addictions treatment
- Primary care provider or patient indicates not to contact patient
- Barriers to telephone assessment (hearing, non-English)
- Unable to provide adequate collateral contacts
- Cognitive impairment
- Unstable or acute medical, surgical, or psychiatric problem requiring emergency care
- Not available for follow-up (planning to move, life expectancy <1 yr, hospice)
- Pregnancy
- VA employee
- Prior to the start of the trial these changes were made (VA IRB approval: 8/2011):
- Changed from AUDIT-C score ≥5 for both men and women TO: AUDIT-C score ≥5 for men; AUDIT-C score ≥4 for women (to increase the pool of potentially eligible women)
- From age 65 years and younger to age ≤75 years
Where it is running
- Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute — Seattle, Washington, United States
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