NCT05889702

Kentucky Access to Recovery Evaluation

Evaluation of the Kentucky Access to Recovery (KATR) Linkage Strategy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 458 (actual)
• Sponsor: Terry Bunn · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluate the long-term effectiveness of implementing vouchers as a linkage strategy in a population requiring recovery support services (RSS) when no other funding sources are available. A within-subjects study design will be used to test the effectiveness of the Kentucky Access to Recovery (KATR) last resort voucher linkage approach to reduce the risk of nonfatal and fatal overdoses by (a) increasing an individual's recovery capital; (b) reducing resumption of illicit substance use; and (c) promoting relinking to RSSs if illicit substance use is resumed.

Conditions

• Substance Use Disorders
• Treatment Adherence and Compliance

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	KATR Linkage Strategy	The Kentucky ATR (KATR) strategy is a 25-county program that links county residents at or below the 200% national poverty level who have an illicit SUD and are in treatment or early recovery to evidence-based RSSs such as recovery housing, and to other RSSs. The KATR linkage approach uses vouchers as a linkage strategy for individuals in SUD treatment who have no other funding options to acquire critical RSSs. As such, KATR's linkage through vouchers is a "last resort" approach for linking to RSSs.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-07-03
• Primary completion: 2025-02-24
• Completion: 2025-02-24
• First posted: 2023-06-05
• Last updated: 2025-04-16

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States