Addiction Risk: Psychoeducational Intervention to Change Risk Perception Among Alcohol Patients in Residential Treatment

Alcohol Use Disorder Clinical Trial

Official title:

Sub-Project No 8 of the Research Group RISKDYNAMICS: Addiction Risk - the Dynamic of Risk Perception and Risk Behavior in Alcohol Dependence, Work Package 1, Study 1.

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03339674
• Other study ID #: OD 113/2-1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: November 1, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: April 2020
• Source: University of Konstanz
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Based on previous research (Odenwald & Semrau, 2012) the investigators know that psychoeducation on comorbid mental disorders during residential alcohol detoxification can improve subsequent treatment utilization. In this study they will study a hypothesized psychological mechanism that contributes to this behavior change.

The investigators will recruit alcohol dependent patients in residential detox treatment who all receive Treatment as Usual. Participants will be randomly assigned to an additional psychoeducational group therapy (intervention group) or to an additional neuropsychological group training (control group). Measurements will take place on the day before study inclusion, one week later and one month after release from index residential treatment. Measurements will include alcohol-related risk perception, alcohol use, treatment motivation, comorbid psychiatric symptoms and whether the patient has regularly completed treatment and whether he/she has been transferred to subsequent treatment. Furthermore, six months after release from index treatment information on re-admission to the clinic is assessed from patient files.

The investigators hypothesize that the behavioral effects of psychoeducational group intervention will be mediated by adaptive changes of the individual's alcohol-related risk perception.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 144
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: June 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Alcohol Dependence (according to ICD-10)

Exclusion Criteria:

• treatment episode is acute crisis intervention

• acute psychosis

• acute suicidality

• no command of German language (reading writing)

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Use Disorder
• Alcoholism

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Psychoeducational Group Intervention on Alcohol Drinking Related to Stress
Manualized and standardized psychotherapeutic group intervention with three sessions of 60 min duration each which are to be delivered in a one-week period.
• Cognitive Training
Manualized and standardized psychotherapeutic group intervention with three sessions of 60 min duration each which are to be delivered in a one-week period.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Germany	Center for Psychiatry Reichenau	Reichenau

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Konstanz	Centre for Psychiatry Reichenau, Germany

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Germany, 

References & Publications (1)

Odenwald M, Semrau P. Reducing dropout among traumatized alcohol patients in detoxification treatment: a pilot intervention study. Eur Addict Res. 2012;18(2):54-63. doi: 10.1159/000333336. Epub 2011 Dec 16. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Questionnaire on Alcohol-related Risk Perception	The patient's self-reported rating of the patient's own perception of alcohol-related risks in the German Questionnaire on Alcohol-related Risk Perception (Klepper, Odenwald & Rockstroh, 2016).	one week
Secondary	Treatment completion	Binary variable: The patient regularly completes the residential detox treatment or he/she can prematurely end the treatment (treatment drop out).	One month after study completion
Secondary	Transfer to subsequent treatment	Binary variable: Patient is directly transferred from detox treatment unit to subsequent alcohol in-patient or day-clinic treatment.	One month after study completion
Secondary	Alcohol relapse	Drinking alcohol after treatment	four weeks
Secondary	Readmission to detox treatment	The patient is readmitted to the same alcohol detox treatment unit	six months