Ambulance Calls for Substance Use and Alcohol in a Pandemic (ASAP)

NCT04474444 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: ASAP01
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 55,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The Primary objective is to explore ambulance service attendance at incidents involving alcohol and/or substance use over the period of the pandemic lockdown, and the following months. This will be to determine prevalence and explore factors such as patient gender, age, ethnicity or location. Analysis will examine the calls over the course of the year prior to the lockdown, and then compare this to the period of lockdown and following months.

Conditions

Alcohol Use, Unspecified; Substance Use; Intoxication Alcohol; Emergencies; COVID-19 Pandemic; Treatment

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Attendances for alcohol and drug use

  Counts of attendances for alcohol and drug use by the East Midland's Ambulance Service over the time period. This will be a number per day of people attended.

  Full data set 23/03/2019 compared to 22/03/2021 to look at interruption (lockdown) in the time series.

Study Arms (2)

Hear and treat

phone call, treatment, not attended

See and treat

Ambulance crew attended

Other: attendance by ambulance crew

Interventions

attendance by ambulance crew OTHER

hear, attendance, convey

See and treat

Eligibility Criteria

• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

All people who ring 999 or 111 in an emergency.

You may qualify if:

• Patient of any age
• Patient requested ambulance attendance between 23rd March 2019 and 22nd March 2021
• The patient record is held by East Midlands Ambulance Service
• Patient records that have recorded a clinical impression related to alcohol and substance use will be included in the data set alongside a word search in the free text response box for the following words/phrases: narcotic, spice, mamba, alcohol, substance use, drug use, illicit drug, overdose, intoxication, intoxicated, drunk, high.

You may not qualify if:

• The patient record was outside of the indicated date range.
• The patient record is not accessible via EMAS

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Lincoln: lead

Study Sites (1)

University of Lincoln

Lincoln, LN64PB, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcohol Drinking; Substance-Related Disorders; Alcoholic Intoxication; Emergencies; COVID-19

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Drinking Behavior; Behavior; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders; Alcohol-Related Disorders; Disease Attributes; Pathologic Processes; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms; Pneumonia, Viral; Pneumonia; Respiratory Tract Infections; Infections; Virus Diseases; Coronavirus Infections; Coronaviridae Infections; Nidovirales Infections; RNA Virus Infections; Lung Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases

Study Officials

• Graham Law, PhD

  University of Lincoln

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: CASE ONLY
• Time Perspective: RETROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 12, 2020
• First Posted: July 16, 2020
• Study Start: March 23, 2019
• Primary Completion: March 23, 2021
• Study Completion: March 23, 2021
• Last Updated: December 11, 2024

Record last verified: 2020-07

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)