Testing A Couple-based Program for Alcohol Risk Reduction in the National Guard

NCT03589508 | Completed

• 2 other identifiers: AA023589R34AA023589
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 44
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this project is to develop and test indicated prevention intervention to harness support and health promoting endeavors to address use of alcohol to cope with reintegration challenges in Massachusetts National Guard (MANG) service members.

Conditions

Alcohol; Harmful Use

Keywords

National Guard; Telehealth; Prevention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Percent Drinking Days

  Derived from Timeline Followback (TLFB)

  Change from baseline at 2 months post session 1

• Percent Heavy Drinking Days

  Derived from Timeline Followback (TLFB)

  Change from baseline at 2 months post session 1

• Mean Drinks Per Drinking Day

  Derived from Timeline Followback (TLFB)

  Change from baseline at 2 months post session 1

• Attitude Items

  6 item self-report questionnaire assessing attitudes toward drinking under different circumstances. Item scores were summed to calculate total scores, with scores ranging from 6 to 24. Higher scores indicate greater attitudes about acceptability of drinking across situations.

  Baseline and through study completion, about 8 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (10)

• Alcohol Expectancies Questionnaire 3

  Change from baseline at 2 months post Session 1

• Coping Strategies Scale

  Change from baseline at 2 months post Session 1

• World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) Questionnaire - Bref

  Change from baseline at 2 months post Session 1

• Treatment Services Review

  Weekly for up to 8 weeks

• Couple Satisfaction Inventory 16

  Baseline and through study completion, about 8 weeks

Other Outcomes (6)

• Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)

  Change from baseline at 2 months post Session 1

• Medical History Questionnaire

  Change from baseline at 2 months post Session 1

• Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)

  Baseline

Study Arms (2)

In-Person Sessions: ABCP_P

EXPERIMENTAL

In-person therapy sessions: 6 Weekly Prevention Session conducted in person (half of participants will attend alone, half of participants will attend with a significant other)

Behavioral: In-person sessions: ABCP_P

Video conference sessions: ABCP_T

EXPERIMENTAL

Video conference therapy sessions: 6 Weekly Prevention Session conducted using videoconference (half of participants will attend alone, half of participants will attend with a significant other)

Behavioral: Video conference sessions: ABCP_T

Interventions

In-person sessions: ABCP_P BEHAVIORAL

6 weekly sessions of alcohol prevention conducted in person.

In-Person Sessions: ABCP_P

Video conference sessions: ABCP_T BEHAVIORAL

6 weekly sessions of alcohol prevention conducted by video conference.

Video conference sessions: ABCP_T

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• Age 18 and older and a member of the MANG.
• Have a SO or trusted friend who is 18 or older
• Service member endorsed one item on the 10-item Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test within their lifetime

You may not qualify if:

• unable to give consent
• Prisoners
• Principal Investigators determined the participant requires a higher level of care (based on unstabilized psychiatric disorder, and/or high drinking or drug use severity, and/or inability to attend to adl's and/or agitated behavior
• Service Member is unable to read or comprehend English at the 7th grade education level

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Massachusetts, Worcester: lead
• National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA): collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Worcester, Massachusetts, 01655, United States

Location

Study Officials

• Elizabeth Epstein, PhD

  UMass Worcester

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

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: Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: June 8, 2018
• First Posted: July 18, 2018
• Study Start: July 1, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 25, 2019
• Study Completion: March 25, 2019
• Last Updated: May 23, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)