Exploration of Acceptability of Alcohol Interventions

NCT07580378 | Not Yet Recruiting DMC

• 1 other identifier: DEV116
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 2,000
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

This is a mixed-methods study consisting of a qualitative assessment the acceptability of psychosocial interventions, delivered by clinical staff. The study will also investigate the correlation between demographic variables and engagement with a North West England, NHS-led, alcohol care service, amongst the patient population.

Conditions

Outcome Assessment; Social Determinants of Health; Socioeconomic Factors; Alcohol Misuse; Alcohol Use Disorder; Behaviour Change; Health Behaviour; Brief Intervention; Psychosocial Intervention; Primary Healthcare; Primary Heath Care; Problem Behavior

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Acceptability of delivering psychosocial interventions & social determinants of access to an NHS-led Alcohol-Care service.

  Directed Content Analysis (DCA) will be used to analyse data from the outputs of the TFA-based questionnaire regarding the acceptability of interventions (Hsieh et al., 2005; Sekhon., et al, 2022). Descriptive statistics will be used to describe the current patient contact data from patients who engaged with the service during September 2023 and December 2024.

  Anticipated to be no longer than 3 months

Study Arms (1)

Clinical ataff who delivered psychosocial interventions and staff who engaged with the service

The participants for part 1 will be identified by the former service lead, who still works in the Trust. A list of all the clinical staff who worked in the alcohol care service will be provided to the Chief Investigator, in order to facilitate contact, with prospective participants. This will be done via email correspondence on Trust computers, to work-based email addresses, to ensure that all correspondence within the study, is protected by Trust IT security. Part 2: The data pertaining to the patient contacts between September 2023 and December 2024, will be screened by the NHS England MESH team to determine if any patients have opted out of sharing their data for research purposes. Once confirmed, the residual data between September 2023 and December 2024 will then be reviewed for inclusion in the data analysis. That is, given that data is captured from a single-time point, for each data set (i.e. there is no intervention follow-up data to compare against).

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 67 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Part 1: The participants for part 1 will be identified by the former service lead, who still works in the Trust. A list of all the clinical staff who worked in the alcohol care service will be provided to the Chief Investigator, in order to facilitate contact, with prospective participants. Part 2: Patients who had contact with the East Lancashire NHS-Health Trust alcohol-care service, between September 2023 and December 2024 (but who have not opted-out of their data being utilised for research purposes).

You may qualify if:

• Clinical staff who worked in the ELHT alcohol care service, and received training in the delivery of psychosocial interventions using the ITEP Manual, and who are still employed by ELHT in other roles (following de-commissioning of the alcohol care service).
• Patient data under part 2 of the study, who have not opted to have their data removed, in accordance with the NHS MESH, opt out scheme.

You may not qualify if:

• Clinical staff who worked in the ELHT alcohol care service, but who no longer work for the trust, or are retired.
• Clinical staff who did not receive training in the delivery of psychosocial interventions.
• Any patient data under part 2 of the study, who have opted to have their data removed for use, under the NHS MESH protocols.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust: lead

Study Sites (1)

Burnley General Teaching Hospital

Burnley, Lancashire, BB102pq, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Alcoholism; Problem Behavior

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Alcohol-Related Disorders; Substance-Related Disorders; Chemically-Induced Disorders; Mental Disorders; Behavioral Symptoms; Behavior; Child Behavior

Study Officials

• Christopher Gray, Chief Investigator

  East Lancashire NHS-Health Trust

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Michelle Stephens, Trust Sponsor

CONTACT

UK: 07976 152397; research.sponsorship@elht.nhs.uk

Aleksandra (Ola) Metryka, Chief Investigator

CONTACT

07977267956; research.sponsorship@elht.nhs.uk

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: CROSS SECTIONAL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: May 5, 2026
• First Posted: May 12, 2026
• Study Start: May 1, 2026
• Primary Completion (Estimated): June 1, 2026
• Study Completion (Estimated): June 10, 2026
• Last Updated: May 12, 2026

Record last verified: 2026-04

Locations

GB (1)