NCT00350610

Computer-Based Training in Cognitive Behavior Therapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Yale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The computer-based training program (CBT for CBT) focuses on teaching basic coping skills, presenting examples of effective use of coping skills in a number of realistic situations in video form, and providing opportunities for patients to practice and review new skills while receiving substance abuse treatment.

Detailed description

In this behavioral trial 120 methadone maintained cocaine abusing individuals will be randomly assigned to either treatment as usual in a community-based clinic OR treatment as usual plus 8 hours of access to the 'CBT for CBT' computer program over a period of 8 weeks. Primary outcomes will be retention in treatment and reduction in cocaine use (percent days abstinent, confirmed by urine toxicology screens). The patients' ability to demonstrate coping skills through a computerized role-play evaluation will be a secondary outcome. A six-month follow-up will assess durability and/or delayed emergence of effects.

Conditions

• Cocaine Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Treatment as usual (TAU)	Standard treatment as usual in a community based treatment setting
BEHAVIORAL	CBT for CBT	Standard treatment as usual (TAU) plus computer based therapy using CBT

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2006-07-11
• Last updated: 2013-01-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States