NCT00252590

Health Focused Motivational Treatment for Alcohol Dependent Veterans

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 99 (actual)
• Sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development · Federal
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether a health focused motivational intervention will reduce alcohol use for dependent veterans who are receiving outpatient alcohol and drug treatment.

Detailed description

The early months of addiction treatment are a high risk time for relapse. The purpose of this study is to examine whether a health-related intervention delivered in an individual session with a therapist once per month in the initial 4 months of addiction treatment will reduce alcohol use among veterans already enrolled in weekly outpatient treatment group at the VA San Diego Healthcare System. In order to answer this question, study participants will be randomly assigned to one of three study conditions: 1) The Health Motivational condition that receives individual personalized health feedback and motivational activities, 2) the Health Education condition that receives individual education about health problems associated with the heavy alcohol use, and 3) the treatment as usual group that will receive no additional treatment. All participants will be assessed on a monthly basis for 4 months to evaluate alcohol use, drug use, and health status.

Conditions

• Alcoholism

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Health Motivational Feedback	Personalized feedback on health status
BEHAVIORAL	Health Education	Generalized health education related to alcohol use
BEHAVIORAL	Control - treatment as usual	Control group with no additional intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2005-11-01
• Primary completion: 2009-05-01
• Completion: 2009-05-01
• First posted: 2005-11-11
• Last updated: 2016-03-21
• Results posted: 2016-03-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States