Supporting Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services to deliver alcohol care: A cluster randomised controlled trial

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: hazardous alcohol use; alcohol use disorders; Public Health - Health service research; Mental Health - Addiction; Public Health - Health promotion/education

• Registration Number: ACTRN12618001892202
• Lead Sponsor: niversity of Sydney

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2018-11-21
• Study Completion: 2021-02-28
• Last Update Posted: 16 January 2023

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

Inclusion Criteria

Health services are the recruitment target. Health Services were eligible to participate if:
1. They are an Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Service.
2. They serve at least 1,000 unique clients annually
3. If they use 'Communicare' as their practice software
4. Only data from clients age 15+ were used.

Exclusion Criteria

1. Health services which were not controlled by Aboriginal communities
2. Health services which served under 1000 clients annually
3. Health services which did not use 'Communicare' as their practice software

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
AUDIT-C screening rate -- The number of clients attending a given service who are screened using AUDIT-C will be assessed using routinely collected clinical data, extracted from the practice software ('Communicare'). [Data will be extracted on the 28th day of every second month. Data will also be retrospectively extracted for the 12-month period before the start of the intervention. <br>The census date for assessing 'intervention' effectiveness is one year after the start of the intervention.]