Alcohol and Employment

NCT01416103 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: 61110- 1986 (tryg, p7)
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 113
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to determine whether welfare-to-work schemes combined with alcohol treatment are more efficient than a welfare-to-work scheme alone, for unemployed citizens with alcohol problems.

Conditions

Alcohol Abuse

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change from baseline in the participant's employment status at 6 and 12 months.

  Change in the participant's employment status, i.e. a) ordinary job, b) change in the participant transfer payments or in other ways approaching the labour market. Employment status is measured with self-reported questionnaires and with a number of administrative registers connected through each participant's personal identification number.

  6 and 12 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change from baseline in the participant's alcohol consumption, health status and readiness for the labour market at 6 and 12 months.

  6 and 12 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention group

EXPERIMENTAL

Intervention group

Other: Intervention group

Intervention control

PLACEBO COMPARATOR

Control group

Other: Control group

Interventions

Intervention group OTHER

Alcohol treatment paralleling welfare-to-work participation: The participants are referred to the municipalities' outpatient alcohol treatment programmes and at the same time referred to an ordinary welfare-to-work programme.

Intervention group

Control group OTHER

The participants will as usual be referred to the welfare-to-work schemes deemed most appropriate by the caseworker. The intervention is no different than what the municipality would have offered if the participant was not part of the study.

Intervention control

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Participants must have an audit-score above 7.
• Participants must be unemployed and receive welfare-to-work schemes when included.

You may not qualify if:

• Participants who have an audit-score below 8.
• Participants who have a normal job.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Southern Denmark: lead
• TRYG Foundation: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

National Institute of Public Health - University of Southern Denmark

Copenhagen, Copenhagen K, 1353, Denmark

Location

Related Publications (1)

• Hansen MB, Kloster S, Danquah IH, Nielsen AS, Becker U, Tjornhoj-Thomsen T, Tolstrup JS. "A welfare recipient may be drinking, but as long as he does as told--he may drink himself to death": a qualitative analysis of project implementation barriers among Danish job consultants. BMC Public Health. 2015 Mar 18;15:264. doi: 10.1186/s12889-015-1620-x.

  PMID: 25886200 DERIVED

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcoholism

Interventions

Control Groups

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Alcohol-Related Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Epidemiologic Research Design; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Research Design; Methods

Study Officials

• Morten Grønbæk, MD, PhD

  Centre for Intervention Research in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

  STUDY DIRECTOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Research assistant

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 12, 2011
• First Posted: August 12, 2011
• Study Start: October 1, 2011
• Primary Completion: October 1, 2014
• Study Completion: October 1, 2014
• Last Updated: February 19, 2015

Record last verified: 2015-02

Locations

DK (1)