NCT00786630

Intervention to Reduce Injection Drug Use

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 726 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Colorado, Denver · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a five-year prospective randomized trial comparing two intervention conditions designed to facilitate substance abuse treatment entry and enhance retention in order to reduce the behaviors associated with HIV and HCV risk among injection drug users (IDUs) and to improve client overall functioning. The overall goal of this project is to compare strengths-based case-management (CM) to an enhanced version of CM that uses case managers to facilitate a therapeutic alliance (CM/FTA) among out-of-treatment IDUs in Denver.

Conditions

• Substance Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Strengths-based case management	Clients will receive counseling and/or referrals for help with nine life domains (life skills, finances, leisure activities, relationships, living arrangements, occupation/education, health, mental health, recovery from substances, legal assistance) for a period of five months after baseline.
BEHAVIORAL	Case management plus facilitated treatment alliance	Clients will receive counseling and/or referrals for help with nine life domains (life skills, finances, leisure activities, relationships, living arrangements, occupation/education, health, mental health, recovery from substances, legal assistance) for a period of five months after baseline. They will also receive a facilitated treatment alliance, which consists of meetings with methadone counselors to aid in treatment entry.

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-11-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2013-02-01
• First posted: 2008-11-06
• Last updated: 2014-12-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States