Trial Testing the Effect of Strategies on Performance of Brief Intervention Programmes for Harmful Alcohol Consumption — ODHIN_RCT  

Alcoholism Clinical Trial

Official title: Randomised Controlled Trial Testing the Incremental Effect of Strategies That Raise Awareness, Acceptance and Performance of Identification and Brief Intervention Programmes for Harmful Alcohol Consumption in Primary Health Care

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The overall objective is to study if training and support, financial reimbursement and referral to an internet based brief intervention programme, singly or in combination, may increase implementation of evidence based methods of identification and brief intervention for excessive alcohol consumption in routine primary health care.

Clinical Trial Description

The study will be a stepped cluster RCT in 5 countries and the endpoint of the study is the number of interventions delivered during a certain time period. More specifically, the RCT will examine:

• The effect of Continuous Medical Education (CME) to PHC providers

• The effect of financial reimbursement to PHC providers as a pay-for-performance of brief alcohol interventions

• Whether an alternative internet based method of delivering brief intervention can increase the proportion of patients reached

• If one implementation strategy will give an added value to one already enforced. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Alcohol Drinking
• Alcoholism

• NCT number: NCT01501552
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Fundacion Clinic per a la Recerca Biomédica
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 2012
• Completion date: December 2014