Brief Education to Reduce Health Care Consumers' Risky Substance Use Behaviors: How Brief is Brief?
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Substance use behaviors and consequences
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions for risky substance use behaviors by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group.
Detailed Description
Screening and brief intervention (SBIRT) generally involves universal screening for risky substance use behaviors in medical settings and the immediate provision of a 3-15 minute intervention to those found to be at risk. In this pilot study, the investigators seek to develop a more efficient and effective approach to providing brief behavioral health interventions in the field by comparing a brief coach directed intervention to a tailored report only group. The goal is to create a cost-effective and sustainable system that provides consumers with tailored information that will help them both initiate and sustain the lifestyle changes necessary for improving their overall health.
Hypothesis 1: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will be associated with a reduction in risky substance use behaviors.
Hypothesis 2: In a medical setting, personalized feedback alone will have the same impact on behavior as that information plus a brief coach education session on risky substance use behaviors..
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 105 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •Low level risky substance use
Exclusion Criteria
- •high substance use risk levels
- •potential alcohol or drug addiction or dependence
Arms & Interventions
Personalized feedback plus education
Participants receive the personalized feedback report plus education. This is the currently implemented service approach.Treatment as usual with participants receiving a personalized feedback report about the risks associated with their current substance use behaviors and a brief (5-15 minute) motivational interviewing based education session provided by a trained health coach.
Intervention: Personalized feedback report plus education (Behavioral)
Personalized feedback report alone
Provision of the personalized feedback report alone.
Intervention: Personalized feedback report (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Substance use behaviors and consequences
Time Frame: 1 month follow-up
Interview questionnaire includes items concerning substance use behaviors (e.g., the number of drinks in the last 7 days) and consequences {e.g., ''During the past month, how often have you failed to do what was normally expected of you because of your use of alcohol?'
Secondary Outcomes
- Substance use behavioral intentions(1 month follow-up)