Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery

NCT06022107 | Completed Results

• 2 other identifiers: 2000035434000
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 30
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose of this research study is to determine whether using a web-based intervention is feasible, acceptable, and helpful for people who engage in hazardous alcohol use and want to cut down or quit.

Conditions

Alcohol; Harmful Use; Alcohol

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (4)

• Recruitment Feasibility

  Feasibility of recruitment is measured as the number of adults who consent to study participation divided by the number of months the trial recruits for.

  Baseline

• Retention Feasibility

  Retention rate is calculated as the number of participants who complete the study divided by the number of participants who consented to participating in the study.

  One-month post-intervention (Day 56)

• Intervention Acceptability (Engagement With Intervention)

  Acceptability is calculated as the number of nights participants login to LDART within the 28-day window.

  Duration of intervention (Days 1-28)

• Intervention Acceptability (Subjective Experience)

  Acceptability is measured with a 9-item self-report acceptability assessment questionnaire. This comprises questions regarding the motivational and supportive properties of the content, perceptions on the frequency of engaging with the intervention, and whether they enjoyed using the intervention. Each question is rated on a 5-point Likert scale, where higher values indicate greater acceptability. There will also be two open-ended questions for participants to indicate what they liked and did not like about the intervention and ways to improve it. Data reported here reflects percentage of participants who answered "agree" or "strongly agree" to the question: "I would recommend LDART to someone trying to cut down or quit drinking".

  Post-intervention (Day 28)

Secondary Outcomes (5)

• Percentage of Drinking Days Per Month

  Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)

• Percentage of Heavy Drinking Days Per Month

  Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)

• Hours Spent Engaging With Recovery Support Services

  Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)

• World Health Organization Quality of Life - Brief Version

  Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)

• Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital

  Day 0 (Pre-intervention), 28 (Post-intervention), and 56 (1-month post-intervention)

Study Arms (1)

LDART

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be asked to log onto the LDART website each night for a month.

Behavioral: LDART

Interventions

LDART BEHAVIORAL

LDART is a newly developed web-based social support intervention that can be accessed by smartphone or computer. Each night, the participant sets a recovery goal for the next day (e.g., drink less than usual, go to a support group meeting). The next night, they log on to LDART to indicate whether they reached their goal for the day. Depending on their response, they will be shown either a celebratory or encouraging message from someone in the addiction recovery community, along with specific information on that person's recovery organization.

LDART

Eligibility Criteria

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

You may qualify if:

• years of age or older
• Is at the time of study participation residing in Connecticut, USA
• Is fluent in English and has a 6th grade reading level or higher
• Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) score of ≥8
• Has had at least one heavy drinking day in the past month
• Has some desire to cut down or quit their alcohol use
• Has a smartphone or computer with access to internet

You may not qualify if:

• Has vulnerable population status (e.g., pregnant people, prisoners)
• Is at the time of study participation receiving in-patient psychiatric treatment involving hospitalization

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yale University: lead
• Society of Addiction Psychology: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

1 Church St

New Haven, Connecticut, 06510, United States

Location

Related Publications (1)

• McCurdy LY, Kong G, Krishnan-Sarin S, Kiluk BD, Potenza MN. A non-randomized pilot study protocol of a novel social support intervention for individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use. PLoS One. 2023 Oct 5;18(10):e0292293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292293. eCollection 2023.

  PMID: 37796784 DERIVED

Results Point of Contact

• Title: Li Yan McCurdy, PhD
• Organization: Yale University

liyan.mccurdy@yale.edu

2037372912

Study Officials

• Marc N Potenza, MD, PhD

  Yale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Li Yan McCurdy, PhD

  Yale University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Publication Agreements

• PI is Sponsor Employee: Yes

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 23, 2023
• First Posted: September 1, 2023
• Study Start: January 26, 2024
• Primary Completion: July 15, 2024
• Study Completion: July 15, 2024
• Last Updated: November 5, 2025
• Results First Posted: November 5, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-10

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)