NCT07414589

Brief Alcohol Treatment for Women Veterans in Primary Care

A Brief, Integrated Intervention for Women Veterans With Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Syracuse VA Medical Center · Federal
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The goal of this study is to develop and test a brief behavioral treatment for women Veterans with alcohol use in primary care. The study involves a development phase, an open trial phase, and a pilot randomized controlled trial. The main questions it aims to answer are: * Is the treatment feasible and acceptable to women Veteran primary care patients? * Can the treatment help reduce alcohol use, alcohol-related problems, and improve quality of life? Researchers will compare the new treatment to usual treatment that primary care patients would normally receive. Participants will be asked to participate in either the new behavioral treatment or usual primary care treatment and attend 3 appointments to answer questions about their alcohol use, quality of life, other mental health symptoms, and what they thought of their behavioral treatment.

Conditions

• Alcohol Misuse

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Brief, Integrated Intervention for Women Veterans with Unhealthy Alcohol Use in Primary Care	The intervention consists of 4-6 30-minute behavioral health appointments with a behavioral health provider in an integrated primary care setting. It includes 4 core alcohol-focused appointments focused on providing information and skills to manage unhealthy alcohol use that have been adapted from existing evidence-based treatments in integrated primary care and specialty care. Participants may elect to attend up to 2 additional optional appointments focused on supplemental strategies to manage alcohol use or to address co-occurring mental and behavioral health concerns, including mood, trauma, sleep, and pain.
BEHAVIORAL	Primary care usual care	Primary care usual care consists of universal annual alcohol screening; those who are identified as at-risk receive a brief advice intervention from their primary care provider and may be offered an integrated primary care referral. The brief advice intervention is standardized and triggered automatically by a positive screen. Integrated primary care consists of brief assessment and intervention with licensed, independent behavioral health providers. Patients may decline integrated primary care referrals, complete several appointments, and/or be referred to specialty treatment

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-10-01
• Primary completion: 2028-09-01
• Completion: 2030-08-01
• First posted: 2026-02-17
• Last updated: 2026-02-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States