NCT02141789

Outpatient Psychotherapeutic Treatment for Alcohol Dependent Individuals With Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Konstanz · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Research has shown that alcohol dependence often co-occurs with comorbid anxiety disorders and/or depression. Anxiety and depression influence the course and treatment of alcohol dependence and are a major risk factor for alcohol relapse within the first three months after detoxification. Therefore, there is need for combined treatment (integrated therapy) of alcohol dependence and comorbid psychiatric disorders, e.g. anxiety and/or depression. Until today, there are no systematic outpatient treatment offers for this special group of patients in Germany. In this study we want to investigate if integrated outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy can prevent and decrease alcohol relapse within the first three months after detoxification. Therefore we hypothesize that immediate start of integrated outpatient psychotherapy will reduce relapse variables compared to treatment as usual which is characterized by non-immediate start of therapy due to the required application for insurance coverage.

Conditions

• Alcohol Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy	Integrated CBT intervention for alcohol dependence and comorbid psychiatric disorder (we include only patients with comorbid mood or anxiety disorders).
BEHAVIORAL	Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy	The intervention is a well established form of psychotherapy that has infrequently been used in the German system with this group of patients in contrast to many other countries where it is the standard approach, e.g. the US.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-11-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-01
• Completion: 2018-03-01
• First posted: 2014-05-19
• Last updated: 2020-03-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany