Contingency Management to Reduce Alcohol Use in a Soup Kitchen Sample

Alcohol Abuse Clinical Trial

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Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02499913
• Other study ID #: 15-177-1
• Secondary ID: P60AA003510
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: July 14, 2015
• Last updated: June 22, 2017
• Start date: July 2015
• Est. completion date: November 2016

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: UConn Health
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Alcohol use and alcohol-related disorders are highly prevalent in soup kitchen users, and this population is overrepresented by minorities and disproportionately affected by alcohol-related morbidity and mortality. Contingency management is a behavioral intervention effective in reducing substance use, but few studies have evaluated the efficacy of contingency management in the context of soup kitchens or homeless programs. The investigators found that contingency management, using a twice weekly testing and reinforcement schedule, had benefits for decreasing drinking in individuals receiving services at a homeless shelter. This study will replicate and extend these earlier findings to a soup kitchen population using more sophisticated alcohol monitoring procedures to better assess the extent of drinking in this group and in response to a contingency management intervention reinforcing submission of negative breath samples. Specifically, 40 hazardous drinkers recruited from a soup kitchen will be randomly assigned to one of two conditions: alcohol monitoring or the same plus reinforcement for provision of daily negative breath alcohol samples. The interventions will be in effect for 3 weeks, and all participants will also wear transdermal continuous alcohol monitors during the intervention period. Objective and subjective indices of alcohol consumption will be evaluated and compared between and within the treatment conditions. This pilot project will provide information regarding the effect size of contingency management reinforcing negative breath samples in an important health disparities group, and results from this study will guide subsequent grant applications focusing on methods to decrease drinking in this underserved population.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 27
• Est. completion date: November 2016
• Est. primary completion date: November 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• age =18

• frequent soup kitchen users who drink alcohol

• willing to wear transdermal alcohol monitor for 3 weeks

• willing to sign a property transfer form and return SCRAMx equipment

Exclusion Criteria:

• uncontrolled, severe psychopathology and/or severe cognitive impairment

• non-English speaking

• in recovery for pathological gambling

• has a medical condition that would interfere with transdermal alcohol readings

• legal charges pending that are likely to lead to incarceration

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Abuse
• Alcoholism
• Contingency Management

Intervention

Behavioral:
• breath alcohol monitoring
Daily breath alcohol monitoring
• contingency management
Participants can earn chance to win prizes for negative breath alcohol samples.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Friendship Center	New Britain	Connecticut

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
UConn Health	National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	efficacy of contingency management relative to monitoring only	longest duration of abstinence	week 4