Social Support Intervention for Addiction Recovery

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Alcohol; Harmful Use; Alcohol
• Interventions: Behavioral: LDART

• Registration Number: NCT06022107
• Lead Sponsor: Yale University

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.

Detailed Description

This pilot study will determine the feasibility and acceptability of a novel online social support intervention (Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together!, abbreviated as LDART) that uses pre-recorded videos created by members of recovery support services to help individuals in early recovery from hazardous alcohol use sustain motivation during recovery and introduce them to freely available recovery support services in the community. The investigators will recruit participants to use the web-based intervention daily for a month; they will also fill in questionnaires about their substance use and engagement with recovery support services at the beginning and end of the study to determine preliminary efficacy.

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2023-08-23
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-08-30
• Study First Posted: 2023-09-01
• Study Start: 2024-01-26
• Primary Completion: 2024-07-15
• Study Completion: 2024-07-15
• Status Verified: 2025-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2025-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2025-01-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

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

Inclusion Criteria

• 18 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

Exclusion Criteria

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

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

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Intervention acceptability (engagement with intervention)	Duration of intervention (Days 1-28)	Acceptability is calculated as the number of nights participants login to LDART within the 28-day window.
Retention feasibility	One-month post-intervention (Day 56)	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.
Intervention acceptability (subjective experience)	Post-intervention (Day 28)	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.
Recruitment feasibility	Baseline	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.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Change from Baseline in Percent Heavy Drinking Days	Day 0, 28, and 56	Percent Heavy Drinking Days is calculated from the Timeline Follow Back instrument as the number of days in the 28-day window in which four/five or more standard drinks is consumed for women/men for two consecutive windows.
Change from Baseline in Hours Spent Engaging with Recovery Support Services	Day 0, 28, and 56	Self-reported total number of hours spent engaging in recovery support services (e.g., being at a recovery community center, attending a support group meeting) in the past 28-day time window for two consecutive windows.
Change from Baseline in Quality of Life	Day 0, 28, and 56	World Health Organization Quality of Life - Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF) is a 26-item questionnaire with four domains (score range in parentheses): physical health (7-35), psychological health (6-30), social relationships (3-15), and environment (8-40). Each question is rated on a five-point Likert scale, where higher values indicate higher quality of life.
Change from Baseline in Percent Drinking Days	Day 0, 28, and 56	Timeline Follow Back is a validated, self-reported instrument that provides specific dates for alcohol use in the past 28 days, and the number of standard drinks consumed on each drinking day. Percent Drinking Days is calculated as the number of days in the 28-day window in which one or more standard drinks is consumed for two consecutive windows.
Change from Baseline in Recovery Capital	Day 0, 28, and 56	Brief Assessment of Recovery Capital (BARC) is a 10-item self-report measure of recovery capital with ten domains (substance use and sobriety, global psychological health, global physical health, citizenship and community involvement, social support, meaningful activities, housing and safety, risk-taking, coping and life functioning, recovery experience). Each item is rated in binary, so domain scores range from 0-5, and total score ranges from 0-10, where higher values indicate higher recovery capital.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

1 Church St; 🇺🇸 New Haven, Connecticut, United States