Self-Concept and Autobiographical Memory in Alcohol Use Disorder

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Conditions studied: Alcohol Use Disorder

In brief

This study has two objectives. First, to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy sessions based on self-concept and autobiographical memory in patients suffering from alcohol use disorders (AUD). Second, investigate the relationship between drinking identity and AUD. These objectives will be investigated according to a longitudinal design. In this study, the drinking identity is evaluated on its implicit dimension and on its explicit dimension. Levels of alcohol use and dependence are assessed by the amount and frequency of drinking, the duration of abstinence, and the intensity of AUD symptoms. These assessments consist three visits: on the day of inclusion, then at three months and six months after the first visit. The psychotherapy sessions consist of four individual sessions. They are inspired by the Social Identity Mapping in Addiction Recovery (SIM-AR) by Beckwith et al. (2019), combined with autobiographical reasoning exercises. Patients with an AUD, participants in the study, are recruited from the addiction department of the Etablissement Public de Santé Mentale de la Marne. To investigate the effects of individual psychotherapy sessions, two groups of patients are constituted randomly. The first group will have four psychotherapy sessions between the first visit and the second vist. The second group will not follow psychotherapy sessions but will benefit from the usual addiction treatments. The first hypothesis is that patients who have completed the psychotherapy sessions will have lower alcohol consumption (frequency, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of AUD (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) than those who have not benefited from the program. The second hypothesis is that implicit and explicit levels of drinking identity will predict alcohol consumption (frequencies, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of dependence (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) for all participants.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT06985927

Run by

CHU de Reims

People needed

100

Starts

2025-05-28

Expected to finish

2027-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2026-08-05

Who can join

Age: 24 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients over 24 years old, men or women
• Having a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder according to DSM-5 criteria
• Being a native French speaker
• Patients enrolled in the national healthcare insurance program
• Consenting to participate to the study

You may not qualify if…

• A diagnosis of current non-stabilized psychiatric disorders according to DSM-5 criteria
• The presence of another substance use disorder, except for tobacco dependence
• The presence of any intellectual disability, of pervasive developmental disorders
• The presence of any neurological disorder or any other disorder affecting the central nervous system including neurological complications of alcoholism
• A sensorial impairment uncorrected (visual and/or hearing)

Where it is running

• Chu Reims — Reims, France (enrolling)

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