Effectiveness of a Brief Intervention for Reducing the Alcohol Use in Risky Users Delivered by Paramedics in Primary Care
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 342
- 试验地点
- 6
- 主要终点
- AUDIT score
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Prevention
- 盲法
- Single (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 45 Years（Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •AUDIT score between 8 and 15
- •Able to read
- •Haven't received a similar intervention in the last 3 months
排除标准
- •Clients in treatment for alcohol use disorder
- •Alcohol use treatment seekers
- •Pregnant woman
- •Severe physical or psychiatric pathology not stable
结局指标
主要结局
AUDIT score
时间窗: 6 months post brief intervention
Total of questions 1 to 10 (minimum 0, maximum 40)
次要结局
- AUDIT-C score(6 months post brief intervention)