Feasibility Evaluation of a Self-guided Digital Tool for Problematic Alcohol Use
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
- Enrollment
- 36
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Standardized drinks per week (based on Time Line Follow Back)
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of the study is to evaluate the feasibility of a new monitored self-guided digital intervention based on an alcohol diary and techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and relapse prevention. The participants will be adults with problematic alcohol use. An uncontrolled trial will explore participant's usability and treatment credibility ratings, behavioural engagement and preliminary effects on alcohol use.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Intervention Model
- Single Group
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- None
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to — (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •≥ 18 years of age
- •Access to internet
- •≥8 points for men and ≥6 points for women on Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT)
Exclusion Criteria
- •Insufficient knowledge of the Swedish language
- •Difficulties reading or writing related to a digital intervention.
- •Other ongoing psychological treatment with a content similar to that in the current study (problematic alcohol use).
- •High suicide risk based on telephone assessment.
- •Other urgent need for more intensive psychiatric care, or addiction care services, based on telephone assessment.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Standardized drinks per week (based on Time Line Follow Back)
Time Frame: 3 months after intervention
Changes in standardized drinks per week (using Time Line Follow Back)
Heavy drinking days (based on Time Line Follow Back)
Time Frame: 3 months after intervention
Changes in number of heavy drinking days (defined as ≥ 5 (men) or ≥ 4 (women) standardized drinks on a single day, using the Time Line Follow Back)
Secondary Outcomes
- Standardized drinks per week (based on Time Line Follow Back)(Immediately after the intervention)
- Credibility/Expectancy questionnaire(Immediately after the intervention)
- Brunnsviken Brief Quality of Life Scale(Immediately after the intervention)
- Patient Health Questionnaire 9(Immediately after the intervention)
- Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7(Immediately after the intervention)
- Heavy drinking days (based on Time Line Follow Back)(Immediately after the intervention)
- Diagnostic criteria Alcohol Use Disorder(Immediately after the intervention)
- System Usability Scale(Immediately after the intervention)
- Penn Alcohol Craving Scale(Immediately after the intervention)
- Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test(Immediately after the intervention)
Investigators
Martin Kraepelien
Licensed clinical psychologist, Principal investigator, PhD
Karolinska Institutet