NCT00043693

Family Intervention for Mental Illness and Substance Abuse

Family Intervention for SMI and Substance Use Disorder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 108 (actual)
• Sponsor: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study will evaluate a family intervention program for individuals with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, or schizoaffective disorder and co-occurring substance use disorders.

Detailed description

Substance use disorder (SUD) in persons with severe mental illness may worsen the course of psychiatric illness. The loss of family support for individuals with mental illness is a major contributing factor to housing instability, homelessness, and other problems. Despite progress toward integrating mental health and substance abuse services, interventions that improve the course of mental illness while helping the families of the mentally ill are not currently available. Enhancing skills for coping with mental illness may be an effective strategy for treating SUD, decreasing caregiver burden, and improving the long-term outcomes for people with mental illness. Patients and their families are randomly assigned to either the Family Intervention for Dual Diagnosis (FIDD) program or family psychoeducation. The FIDD program lasts for up to 3 years and includes both single and multiple-family group formats. The family psychoeducation program consists of 6 weekly sessions. Routine assessments are conducted on all patients, and relatives are evaluated on a wide range of outcomes, including substance abuse, hospitalizations, psychiatric symptoms, legal problems, aggression, housing and homelessness, family burden, social support, and quality of life. To determine the effectiveness of the FIDD program, knowledge of mental illness and problem-solving skills are assessed in the families following treatment.

Conditions

• Schizophrenia
• Bipolar Disorder
• Substance-related Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Family Intervention for Dual Diagnosis	The family intervention for dual diagnosis program lasts for up to 3 years and includes both single and multiple-family group formats.
BEHAVIORAL	Family psychoeducation program	The family psychoeducation program consists of 6 weekly sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-04-01
• Primary completion: 2008-12-01
• Completion: 2008-12-01
• First posted: 2002-08-15
• Last updated: 2012-08-08

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States