AAT-App Rehabilitation Trial: The effect of smartphone-delivered cognitive training on relapse and treatment re-admission among patients leaving residential alcohol treatment.

Not Applicable

Recruiting

Conditions: Mental Health - Addiction
Alcohol use disorder

Registration Number: ACTRN12622001245785

Lead Sponsor: Monash University

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Recruiting

Sex: All

Target Recruitment: 300

Inclusion Criteria

Own an Android or iOS smartphone with an Australian mobile number
- Be currently receiving residential rehabilitation/stabilisation treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD)
- Meet at least 4 criteria for AUD within the past 6 months, as assessed by the AUD module of the Structured Clinical Interview for the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders Fifth Edition - Research Version (SCID-5-RV)

Exclusion Criteria

- Planning to transfer to longer-term residential rehabilitation treatment upon discharge
- Too cognitively or psychiatrically impaired to provide informed consent or safely participate, according to the screening clinician's judgment

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Proportion of participants reporting past-month abstinence from alcohol (i.e., no alcohol consumption within the past 28 days). At the post-intervention, 4-week, and 12-week follow-ups, this will be measured using an in-app questionnaire designed for this programme of research based on the timeline follow-back method for assessing alcohol use. At the 6-month follow-up, this will be interviewer-administered by phone, as the app does not have an automated 6-month follow-up notification function.[ 12 weeks after the end of the intervention period (primary time-point).<br><br>Additional timepoints: post-intervention (i.e., at the end of the 4-week intervention period); 4 weeks after the end of the intervention period; 6 months after the end of the intervention period.]

Secondary Outcome Measures