NCT03278821

The Self Match Study: A Study of Informed Choice in the Treatment of Addiction

A Randomized Controlled Study of Patients Matching Themselves to Treatment Options: The Self-Match Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 400 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kjeld Andersen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether patient self-matching (as compared with treatment as usual by expert matching) improves quality of life, retention, and outcome for patients being treated for alcohol problems. There are at least two good reasons for offering patients a choice when the goal is a change in their behavior. The first is that patients are likely to know what treatment works best for them. Secondly, being allowed to choose between options may increase compliance in treatment. As a randomized controlled trial, this study will compare the efficacy of patient self-matching versus treatment-as-usual expert matching. The Self-Match Study is expected to increase knowledge on the importance of involving the alcohol dependent patient in choosing what treatment method is best for him/her instead of having experts to do that. The investigators expect to discover patient involvement as a way to improve compliance in treatment, hence preventing that patients drop out of treatment to early. If this hypothesis proves to be right, clinicians will have a viable strategy for matching treatment methods to patients, since the strategy does not demand further resources in the treatment system.

Conditions

• Alcohol Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Self Match	Video presentation of treatment option are shown to the patient whereafter the patient must choose between the five possible treatment options.
BEHAVIORAL	Expert Match	Referral as usual to one of five possible treatment options. The referral is based on baseline data from the patient and by the means of an algorithm, used in daily clinical praxis.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-01
• Primary completion: 2019-11-01
• Completion: 2021-01-29
• First posted: 2017-09-12
• Last updated: 2021-10-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark