NCT03452241

Long-term Follow-up Study of Substance Abuse Screening and Intervention in Multi Primary Care Centers

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 480 (actual)
• Sponsor: Shanghai Mental Health Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 75 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to improve the ability of primary medical staffs in screening and intervention for alcohol, benzodiazepines, and other illicit drug use.

Detailed description

In order to reduce the social and personal harm caused by drugs, it is urgent to strengthen the ability of the primary health institutions in screening and intervention the addictive substances use. Firstly, the investigators will invite 10 primary medical staffs and 10 experts in addition to revise the manual of Alcohol, Smoking, and Substance Use Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) and Brief Intervention (BI). Then, the investigators will recruit related medical staffs in five provinces to participate the training of ASSIST and BI. Secondly, the researcher will investigate the effects of BI technology in reducing the use of addictive substances, improve the addiction related knowledge of patients through randomized controlled study. Finally, the investigators will collect the research information, revise the manual, and promote the training.

Conditions

• Substance Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intervention Group	The medical staffs who received the training will use the manual of brief intervention to deliver BI and other materials about the harm of substance use.BI refers to a standard 15-30 minute intervention that includes a series of standard models that stimulate knowledge, motivation and behavior that reduce substance abuse.the harm of substance use is a dedicated paper publicity handbook, written by the SHMC, detailing the hazards of substance abuse.
OTHER	Control Group	The participants only receive the materials about the harm of substance use.the harm of substance use is a dedicated paper publicity handbook, written by the SHMC, detailing the hazards of substance abuse.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-14
• Primary completion: 2018-07-10
• Completion: 2020-03-10
• First posted: 2018-03-02
• Last updated: 2020-03-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China