Self-Concept and Autobiographical Memory in Alcohol Use Disorder

NCT06985927 | Recruiting

• 1 other identifier: PO25057*
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This study has two objectives. First, to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy sessions based on self-concept and autobiographical memory in patients suffering from alcohol use disorders (AUD). Second, investigate the relationship between drinking identity and AUD. These objectives will be investigated according to a longitudinal design. In this study, the drinking identity is evaluated on its implicit dimension and on its explicit dimension. Levels of alcohol use and dependence are assessed by the amount and frequency of drinking, the duration of abstinence, and the intensity of AUD symptoms. These assessments consist three visits: on the day of inclusion, then at three months and six months after the first visit. The psychotherapy sessions consist of four individual sessions. They are inspired by the Social Identity Mapping in Addiction Recovery (SIM-AR) by Beckwith et al. (2019), combined with autobiographical reasoning exercises. Patients with an AUD, participants in the study, are recruited from the addiction department of the Etablissement Public de Santé Mentale de la Marne. To investigate the effects of individual psychotherapy sessions, two groups of patients are constituted randomly. The first group will have four psychotherapy sessions between the first visit and the second vist. The second group will not follow psychotherapy sessions but will benefit from the usual addiction treatments. The first hypothesis is that patients who have completed the psychotherapy sessions will have lower alcohol consumption (frequency, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of AUD (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) than those who have not benefited from the program. The second hypothesis is that implicit and explicit levels of drinking identity will predict alcohol consumption (frequencies, quantities, peaks) and symptoms of dependence (cravings, drinking refusal self-efficacy and feeling of recovery) for all participants.

Conditions

Alcohol Use Disorder

Keywords

Alcohol Use Disorders; Self-Concept; Autobiographical Memory; Psychotherapeutic Care

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Severity of alcohol use disorder

  The Alcohol Use Disorder Inventory Test (AUDIT). The AUDIT is self-administered questionnaire consists of 10 items designed to identify the risk of the presence of an alcohol use disorder with or without dependence. Items 1 to 6 assess the presence of an alcohol use disorder, and items 7 to 10 assess problems associated with the participant's drinking pattern

  Day 0, to 3 months, to 6 months

Secondary Outcomes (2)

• Craving

  Day 0, to 3 months, to 6 months

• Drinking refusal self-efficacy

  Day 0, to 3 months, to 6 months

Study Arms (2)

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

Self-Concept Group

EXPERIMENTAL

Behavioral: psychotherapeutic sessions

Interventions

psychotherapeutic sessions BEHAVIORAL

Analysis of effect of psychotherapeutic sessions based on self-concept and autobiographical memory on alcohol addiction

Self-Concept Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 24 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Patients over 24 years old, men or women
• Having a diagnosis of alcohol use disorder according to DSM-5 criteria
• Being a native French speaker
• Patients enrolled in the national healthcare insurance program
• Consenting to participate to the study

You may not qualify if:

• A diagnosis of current non-stabilized psychiatric disorders according to DSM-5 criteria
• The presence of another substance use disorder, except for tobacco dependence
• The presence of any intellectual disability, of pervasive developmental disorders
• The presence of any neurological disorder or any other disorder affecting the central nervous system including neurological complications of alcoholism
• A sensorial impairment uncorrected (visual and/or hearing)

Sponsors & Collaborators

• CHU de Reims: lead
• EPSM de la Marne: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Chu Reims

Reims, 51092, France

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcoholism

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

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

Central Study Contacts

Farid BENZEROUK

CONTACT

03 26 61 19 30; benzeroukf@epsm-marne.fr

Sylvain PORTIER

CONTACT

03.26.61.19.39; s.portier@epsm-marne.fr

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: SUPPORTIVE CARE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 15, 2025
• First Posted: May 22, 2025
• Study Start: May 28, 2025
• Primary Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Study Completion (Estimated): December 1, 2027
• Last Updated: March 13, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-03

Locations

FR (1)