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Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting

Early Phase 1
Terminated
Conditions
Substance Use
Interventions
Behavioral: Motivational interviewing and referral to treatment
Registration Number
NCT01661517
Lead Sponsor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Brief Summary

This study will be a quality improvement project to review the effectiveness and barriers to effectiveness of a new clinical program in the emergency room to provide substance use screening followed by brief motivational interviewing and referral to treatment for patients who meet criteria for problem substance use. This study will consist of a chart review of the results of the screens performed by substance use counselors and correlating them to institutional variables such as wait time in the emergency room and length of stay as well as to patient variables obtained by chart review such as medical diagnosis and sociodemographic variables.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
TERMINATED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
5271
Inclusion Criteria
  • Age 19 and older Presentation to UAB Emergency Department
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Exclusion Criteria
  • Younger than 19 Prisoners
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Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
SINGLE_GROUP
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Lifestyle CounselingMotivational interviewing and referral to treatmentmotivational interviewer
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
substance use2 years
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Alabama Birmingham

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Birmingham, Alabama, United States

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