A Computer-based Intervention for Women With Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence in the Emergency Department
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Rhode Island Hospital
- Enrollment
- 40
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Change in past-month drug use days
Study Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to target co-occurring problems of substance use and intimate partner violence (IPV) using a computer-based intervention, B-SAFER (Brief intervention for Substance use and partner Abuse for Females in the Emergency Room). This project will develop and test the computer-based intervention, examining primary outcomes of substance use and utilization of relationship safety resources.
Study Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Treatment
- Masking
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 18 Years to 65 Years (Adult, Older Adult)
- Sex
- Female
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •≥18 years of age
- •English or Spanish language proficiency sufficient to understand and complete study procedures
- •moderate drug use in the prior 3 months (by NM-ASSIST)
- •IPV victimization in the prior 6 months (by WAST)
- •access to a phone
Exclusion Criteria
- •Patients who are:
- •intoxicated
- •medically unstable as determined by ED staff
- •suicidal ideation
- •psychosis
- •combative
- •in police custody
Arms & Interventions
Computer Intervention
Patients randomized to the computer intervention will complete the B-SAFER computer program during their emergency department visit.
Intervention: Computer Intervention (Behavioral)
Control
Patients randomized to the control arm will receive a time-equivalent computer-based program unrelated to substance use or partner violence.
Intervention: Control (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Change in past-month drug use days
Time Frame: 1 month, 3 month
Drug use based on Timeline Followback.
Change in use of relationship safety behaviors and referral resources for IPV.
Time Frame: 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months
Based on Safety Behavior Checklist and Effectiveness in Obtaining Resources scales.
Secondary Outcomes
- Change in readiness to change drug use.(2 week, 1 month, 3 months)
- Change in readiness to change scale for relationship safety behaviors.(2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months)
Investigators
Esther Choo
Assistant Professor
Rhode Island Hospital