Outpatient Psychotherapeutic Treatment for Alcohol Dependent Individuals With Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Alcohol Dependence
• Interventions: Behavioral: Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy

• Registration Number: NCT02141789
• Lead Sponsor: University of Konstanz

Brief Summary

Research has shown that alcohol dependence often co-occurs with comorbid anxiety disorders and/or depression. Anxiety and depression influence the course and treatment of alcohol dependence and are a major risk factor for alcohol relapse within the first three months after detoxification. Therefore, there is need for combined treatment (integrated therapy) of alcohol dependence and comorbid psychiatric disorders, e.g. anxiety and/or depression. Until today, there are no systematic outpatient treatment offers for this special group of patients in Germany. In this study we want to investigate if integrated outpatient cognitive behavioral therapy can prevent and decrease alcohol relapse within the first three months after detoxification. Therefore we hypothesize that immediate start of integrated outpatient psychotherapy will reduce relapse variables compared to treatment as usual which is characterized by non-immediate start of therapy due to the required application for insurance coverage.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2014-05-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-05-16
• Study First Posted: 2014-05-19
• Study Start: 2014-11
• Primary Completion: 2017-12
• Study Completion: 2018-03
• Status Verified: 2020-03
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-03-23
• Last Update Posted: 2020-03-25

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 30

Inclusion Criteria

• alcohol dependence
• comorbid anxiety or mood disorder

Exclusion Criteria

• severe mental illness: psychosis, mania, personality disorders
• current suicidality
• non-compliance with appointments during first 5 sessions

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy	Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapy	Outpatient Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a well-known and frequently applied psychotherapy approach that does not need further description.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Relapse	3 months	We assess whether participants have an alcohol relapse (any drinking of alcohol) in the three months after study inclusion
Days with heavy alcohol drinking	3 months	We assess with the Timeline Follow Back (TLFB, Sobell \& Sobell, 2000) the number of days with heavy alcohol drinking (for a man 5 or more drinks a day, for a woman 4 or more drinks a day) in the three months after study inclusion

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Comorbid psychiatric symptoms	3 months	Anxiety, depression and other relevant psychiatric symptoms will be measured by different standardized questionnaires at t1 (before treatment) and after 3 months (t2). We will use standardized symptom change as outcome measure.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Konstanz, Outpatient Clinic for Psychotherapy; 🇩🇪 Konstanz, Germany