Brief Interventions in General Hospital (BIG)

Alcoholism Clinical Trial

— BIG  

Official title:

Brief Interventions for Heavy Alcohol Users Admitted to General Hospital

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00982306
• Other study ID #: SN08OC202
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: September 22, 2009
• Last updated: July 28, 2010
• Start date: February 2010
• Est. completion date: April 2012

Study information

• Verified date: July 2010
• Source: Partnerships in Care
• Contact: Jean McQueen, MSc
• Phone: 01292 886666
• Email: mcqueentraining[@]fsmail.net
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Scotland: Scottish Executive Health Department
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Alcohol abuse is a widespread concern internationally with a significant threat to world health. Research suggests a relationship between heavy drinking and certain clinical presentations such as injuries, physical and psychiatric illnesses and frequent sickness absence from employment. This research aims to establish whether brief interventions delivered to harmful and hazardous alcohol drinkers admitted to hospital impacts of their alcohol consumption levels on discharge from hospital.

Description:

Purpose To evaluate the effectiveness of brief interventions for hazardous and harmful alcohol abusers admitted to medical and surgical wards at the Southern General Hospital

Evidence for brief interventions in general hospital Further research is required to prove the benefits of brief interventions within general hospital, based on evidence from the Cochrane systematic review 'Brief interventions for heavy alcohol users admitted to general hospital wards' (McQueen et al 2009).

Links with national and international agendas The European Health Target12 supports a reduction in harm from alcohol drugs and tobacco. By the year 2015 the adverse health effects from the consumption of addictive substances such as alcohol should be reduced by all member states (European Health for all targets 1998) The Scottish government has set HEAT (Health improvement, efficacy and governance access and treatment) target for the NHS to deliver 149,449 alcohol brief intervention cumulatively over the period of 2008/9-2010/11 (Scottish Alcohol and Drugs Workforce 2008).

Research Design This study will employ a randomised control trial design. The primary outcome measure will be grams of alcohol consumed per week, measures will be taken at baseline, six months and one year post intervention. Secondary outcomes will consist of brief intervention's impact on hospital re-admission rates, attendance at A&E and mortality rates.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 294
• Est. completion date: April 2012
• Est. primary completion date: February 2012
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Scores between 3-12 on FAST

• Admitted to hospital

• Speaks english

Exclusion Criteria:

• Under 18 years

• Cognitively impaired

• Medically Unfit

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcoholism

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Brief intervention
20 minute one to one counseling session

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	Southern General Hospital	Glasgow

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Partnerships in Care	NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Alcohol consumption in units		6 months and one year	No
Secondary	Hospital readmissions		one year	No