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NCT Number: NCT03339674

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Alcohol Use Disorder Alcohol-Related Disorders Alcoholism Chemically-Induced Disorders Mental Disorders Substance-Related Disorders

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Center for Psychiatry Reichenau

Reichenau, 78467, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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)

Treatment and study plan

Psychoeducational Group Intervention on Alcohol Drinking Related to Stress

Behavioral

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

Behavioral

Manualized and standardized psychotherapeutic group intervention with three sessions of 60 min duration each which are to be delivered in a one-week period.

Primary outcomes

  1. Questionnaire on Alcohol-related Risk Perception

    Time frame: one week

    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).

Secondary outcomes

  1. Treatment completion

    Time frame: One month after study completion

    Binary variable: The patient regularly completes the residential detox treatment or he/she can prematurely end the treatment (treatment drop out).

  2. Transfer to subsequent treatment

    Time frame: One month after study completion

    Binary variable: Patient is directly transferred from detox treatment unit to subsequent alcohol in-patient or day-clinic treatment.

  3. Alcohol relapse

    Time frame: four weeks

    Drinking alcohol after treatment

  4. Readmission to detox treatment

    Time frame: six months

    The patient is readmitted to the same alcohol detox treatment unit

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Konstanz

Other

Collaborators

  • Centre for Psychiatry Reichenau, Germany

Registry information

Official study 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.

Important dates

Study start
2017
Primary completion
2019
Study completion
2019
First posted
Nov 13, 2017
Registry last updated
Apr 24, 2020

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