Effectiveness of a Brief Intervention for Reducing the Alcohol Use in Risky Users Delivered by Paramedics in Primary Care
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Enrollment
- 342
- Locations
- 5
- Primary Endpoint
- AUDIT score
Study Overview
Brief Summary
This study evaluates the effectiveness of a brief intervention for the reduction of alcohol use among risky alcohol users in primary care delivered by paramedics. Half of the participants will receive a brief intervention and half will receive written guidelines on safe alcohol use.
Detailed Description
Randomized controlled trial with a pragmatic emphasis undertaken in real world primary care.
The brief intervention has been designed and piloted by the mental health team at the Chilean ministry of health, as also the written support material. This intervention is the same that is being implemented national wide.
The implementation will include training of the paramedics, and then an accreditation session with a simulated participant in a double sided mirror.
Randomization will take place on site using a opaque envelope. The sequence will be keep on site in a secured box.
Data will be registered by the same person delivering the intervention and kept safe at the clinical sites. Once a month the data will be physically transferred to the operational center at the San Joaquin site of the Catholic University of Chile.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 45 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Inclusion Criteria
- •AUDIT score between 8 and 15
- •Able to read
- •Haven't received a similar intervention in the last 3 months
Exclusion Criteria
- •Clients in treatment for alcohol use disorder
- •Alcohol use treatment seekers
- •Pregnant woman
- •Severe physical or psychiatric pathology not stable
Arms & Interventions
Brief intervention
AUDIT brief intervention
Intervention: AUDIT brief intervention (Behavioral)
Brief intervention
AUDIT brief intervention
Intervention: Pamphlet on alcohol use (Other)
Control group
Pamphlet on alcohol use
Intervention: Pamphlet on alcohol use (Other)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
AUDIT score
Time Frame: 6 months post brief intervention
Total of questions 1 to 10 (minimum 0, maximum 40)
Secondary Outcomes
- AUDIT-C score(6 months post brief intervention)