Adapting Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy for Service Members in Post-Deployment
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Alcohol Abuse
In brief
The specific aims of the ABCT\_Military project are as follows: 1) To modify the existing, Alcohol Behavioral Couple Therapy (ABCT) model to treat service members in the reconstitution (post deployment, reintegration, or separation) stage of service, and develop optional psychoeducation modules to address relevant co-morbid problems and challenges in this population in a weekly, 15 session, stand-alone outpatient format. 2) To test feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the study intervention protocol in a successive cohort design for one cohort of 8 couples and one cohort of 22 couples, with iterative manual revision.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03589521
- Run by
- University of Massachusetts, Worcester
- People needed
- 60
- Starts
- 2015-06-01
- Expected to finish
- 2018-11-28
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-05-23
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Age 18 and older;
- Married (or separated with efforts to reconcile) or in a committed relationship (cohabiting, or in an exclusive dating relationship), or significant other (SO) (first, second or third degree relative (including step relative or in-law) or close trusted friend not active in same military branch. The service member only must meet the following inclusion criteria:
- Served or serving in the U.S. Military,
- Current Alcohol Use Disorder diagnosis, or drink at high risk levels as defined by NIAAA (2010)
You may not qualify if…
- Either individual is not fluent in the English language.
- Exclusion criteria for the service member only:
- Unstabilized Psychotic disorder in past six months
- Exclusion criteria for both members of the couple if SO is spouse/romantic partner:
- Either partner is fearful of participating in couple therapy OR either partner suffered severe physical abuse from partner when perpetrator not intoxicated, in past year
Where it is running
- University of Massachusetts Medical School — Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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