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NCT number NCT05619185
Other study ID # 67087
Secondary ID 1R01AA030258
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date January 9, 2024
Est. completion date October 27, 2027

Study information

Verified date April 2024
Source Stanford University
Contact Kat Nameth, BS
Phone 6505429699
Email knameth@stanford.edu
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an adaptive web intervention (Partners Connect) on military spouse drinking behaviors (CPs) and service member help-seeking (SMs). The investigators want to identify for whom this intervention is most efficacious and on what drinking behaviors and mechanisms. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention will reduce concerned partner drinking and increase service member help-seeking, compared to website resources, and that phone-based CRAFT will increase help-seeking behaviors, compared to those who are guided via a CRAFT workbook.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Recruiting
Enrollment 744
Est. completion date October 27, 2027
Est. primary completion date August 31, 2027
Accepts healthy volunteers Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Gender All
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - at least 18 years of age; - be living together with their partner, with no plans to change that status in the next 2 months; - not be in the military themselves (to reduce concerns about mandated reporting of alcohol use); - score =4 on the AUDIT-C for females or =5 for males/other; - respond yes to "Do you feel safe in your current relationship?" from the Partner Violence Screen; - report not currently being in mental health or alcohol treatment (CP and SM) - understand English fluently, - be willing to try an online program to address risky drinking. We require cohabitating CPs and SMs with no anticipated changes in the next two months to ensure close contact and opportunity to practice new skills, and those who would feel safe participating. Exclusion Criteria: - CPs in substance use treatment or their SM was in treatment in the last three months; - does not feel safe in the current relationship; - does not understand English fluently; - has an impaired capacity (cognitive, visual, or hearing); - is not cohabitating with their SM

Study Design


Intervention

Behavioral:
CRAFT Web-Based Intervention
Session 1 addresses CPs' mental health issues and drinking. CPs select reasons why they are seeking help and steps they will take towards those goals. Session 2 is focused on improving their relationship through communication exercises. Session 3 is focused on functional analysis of their partner's drinking, and how to positively reinforce their partner's sobriety and negatively reinforce their drinking. Finally, Session 4 focuses on continuing self-care and talking with their partner about their concerns while interacting with them in healthy ways. The WBI contains audio, video, text, and exercises that utilize digital storytelling and vignettes to convey teaching points - a method utilized by the military to address stigma and increase treatment utilization. Actresses portrayed different experiences that the CP may be going through and modeled skills. CPs clicked on the vignette that they most connected with and followed that character across all the sessions.
Phone-Based CRAFT
The phone-based CRAFT intervention consists of six individual sessions with a CRAFT clinician that will explore what they learned from the WBI and additional skills they need. Session content includes positive reinforcement of non-drinking SM behaviors, refraining from interfering in SM's consequences of alcohol use, communication skills, and self-care.
CRAFT Workbook
The self-directed CRAFT workbook Table 1.Partners Connect WBI has a parent and partner version that uses CRAFT to help the CP help with understanding, self-care, communication, and actions (e.g., how to react when a partner has been using substances and when they have not been using substances, how to talk to partner so that they are more likely to be heard) and includes more information about communicating than the WBI and several interactive worksheets.
Gottman Self-Guided Resources
To match time spent reviewing the website, CPs will receive an orientation guide that includes the website URL and a 4-week guide for how they can navigate this website for 20-30 minutes per week (e.g., read article "'It's Not My Fault!': Why Defensiveness is Damaging" and write down one tool to dissolve defensiveness you're willing to try). We will send reminder emails each week to visit the website and include questions in the emails and our first online follow-up survey asking CPs approximately how many times they visited the website and how long they spent viewing content on the website. Reminder emails will be programmed such that CPs get directed automatically to the website if the CP notes no time spent on it.

Locations

Country Name City State
United States Stanford University Palo Alto California

Sponsors (5)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Stanford University National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), Northern California Institute of Research and Education, RAND, University of Southern California

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Concerned Partner Drinking Days The CP primary outcome is drinking defined as number of drinking days in the past month Baseline to 6 month follow-up
Primary Concerned Partner Drinks per Episode The CP primary outcome is drinking defined as number of drinks per episode in the past month Baseline to 6 month follow-up
Primary Service Member help-seeking Completion of the personalized normalized feedback (PNF) component of the intervention as a signal of increase help-seeking behavior Baseline to 6 month
Secondary mental health symptoms Anxiety as measured by the global score on the Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7-item scale (GAD-7) Baseline to 6 month follow-up
Secondary mental health symptoms Depression as measured by the global score on the Patient Health Questionnaire 9-item (PHQ-9) Baseline to 6 month follow-up
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