NCT01621711

Continuing Care Following Drug Abuse Treatment: Linkage With Primary Care

• Status: Active Not Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 504 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kaiser Permanente · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This component of a larger Center of Research Excellence Grant improves treatment for drug abuse by developing effective linkages between specialty drug treatment and primary health care.

Detailed description

This is a longitudinal two-arm quasi-experimental 3-month alternating off/on design over a 30 month period in which, after a random start, the Linkage condition alternately is added to Usual Care in the Chemical Dependency (CD) clinic and then removed. We compare Usual Care to Usual Care plus Linkage. Follow-up interviews will be conducted at 6, 12 and 24 months. The Linkage intervention includes Usual Care plus 1) sessions on activation regarding overall health behaviors and on selecting a Primary Care physician and communicating with him/her, and 2) a linkage phone call (and/or a facilitated email) with the patient, clinician, and Primary Care physician. The intervention aims to place drug abuse problems in the context of overall health and health care and to activate patients to increase involvement in their own health care.

Conditions

• Substance Abuse
• Substance Dependence
• Substance, Addiction
• Alcohol Abuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Linkage patient activation intervention	Usual Care plus Linkage encompassed Usual Care with the exception that the six 45-min Linkage patient activation education groups replaced the six 45-min Usual Care medical education groups, plus a linkage phone call (and/or a facilitated email) with the patient, clinician, and Primary Care physician. The patient activation intervention components -- 1) six 45-min Linkage sessions on activation regarding overall health behaviors and 2) a linkage phone call (and/or a facilitated email) with the patient, clinician, and PC physician -- were delivered by a clinical psychologist.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-31
• Completion: 2025-12-31
• First posted: 2012-06-18
• Last updated: 2024-05-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States