NCT01189305

Behavioral Couples Therapy for Female Drug-Abusing Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 185 (actual)
• Sponsor: Harvard University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

In treating drug addiction, many studies of male patients show Behavioral Couples Therapy (BCT) helps the whole family (the drug abuser, the relationship partner, and their children) and is more effective than typical individual and group counseling. Only one study of BCT has been done with female drug-abusing patients, and results were promising but not definitive. The proposed study will test with married or cohabiting female drug-abusing patients whether BCT will produce more positive outcomes for the women, their male partners, and their children than standard individual counseling for the patient alone.

Conditions

• Drug Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Behavioral Couples Therapy	Behavioral Couples Therapy
BEHAVIORAL	Individual Drug Counseling	Individual Drug Counseling

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-07-01
• Primary completion: 2014-02-01
• Completion: 2015-02-01
• First posted: 2010-08-26
• Last updated: 2015-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States