NCT00107640

Project SHARE (Senior Health and Alcohol Risk Education)

Costs of Preventing Alcohol Problems in Older Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1,186 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of California, Los Angeles · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Older adults become more sensitive to alcohol, and alcohol also interacts adversely with their common medical conditions and medications. The aim of Project SHARE (Senior Health and Alcohol Risk Education) is to see whether patient and provider education can decrease risky alcohol use and reduce health care costs in persons 60 years of age and older.

Detailed description

Alcohol use in the elderly is an increasingly important public health problem. Alcohol-related risks and problems in older persons may come from the interaction between alcohol and diminished health or medication use. The proposed study is a randomized trial of the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an integrated patient-provider intervention to prevent risky alcohol use among older adults. The intervention will include a tested screening and education system that was developed especially for older adults and their providers, supplemented by a well-established intervention for physicians. The proposed research design involves randomization of 31 primary care physicians in seven clinics and their eligible patients aged 60+ to the intervention versus "usual care."

Conditions

• Alcohol Consumption

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Patient-provider education	Experimental patients received an intervention consisting of the following components: written reports and educational materials, a telephone health educator intervention (at baseline, 3 and 6 months), and a brief provider intervention.

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-05-01
• Primary completion: 2008-09-01
• Completion: 2009-09-01
• First posted: 2005-04-07
• Last updated: 2012-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States