An alcohol-focused intervention versus a healthy living intervention for problem drinkers identified in a general hospital setting (ADAPTA): study protocol for a randomized, controlled pilot trial

Trials

Steve Parrott¹  Paul Toner¹  Charlie Lloyd¹  Christine Godfrey¹  Helen Crosby²  Veronica Dale¹  Noreen Mdege¹  Duncan Raistrick²  Gillian Tober²  Judith Watson¹ 

[1] Department of Health Sciences, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK;Leeds Addiction Unit, 19 Springfield Mount, Leeds LS2 9NG, UK

关键词: Randomized controlled trial;    Non-help seekers;    Economic evaluation;    Integrated social behavioral network therapy;    Problem drinkers;    AUDIT;    Acceptability;    Healthy living;    Pilot study;    Alcohol-related hospital admissions;   

Others  :  1094166
DOI  :  10.1186/1745-6215-14-117

 received in 2012-11-06, accepted in 2013-04-16,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Background

Alcohol misuse is a major cause of premature mortality and ill health. Although there is a high prevalence of alcohol problems among patients presenting to general hospital, many of these people are not help seekers and do not engage in specialist treatment. Hospital admission is an opportunity to steer people towards specialist treatment, which can reduce health-care utilization and costs to the public sector and produce substantial individual health and social benefits. Alcohol misuse is associated with other lifestyle problems, which are amenable to intervention. It has been suggested that the development of a healthy or balanced lifestyle is potentially beneficial for reducing or abstaining from alcohol use, and relapse prevention. The aim of the study is to test whether or not the offer of a choice of health-related lifestyle interventions is more acceptable, and therefore able to engage more problem drinkers in treatment, than an alcohol-focused intervention.

Methods/design

This is a pragmatic, randomized, controlled, open pilot study in a UK general hospital setting with concurrent economic evaluation and a qualitative component. Potential participants are those admitted to hospital with a diagnosis likely to be responsive to addiction interventions who score equal to or more than 16 on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT). The main purpose of this pilot study is to evaluate the acceptability of two sorts of interventions (healthy living related versus alcohol focused) to the participants and to assess the components and processes of the design. Qualitative research will be undertaken to explore acceptability and the impact of the approach, assessment, recruitment and intervention on trial participants and non-participants. The effectiveness of the two treatments will be compared at 6 months using AUDIT scores as the primary outcome measure. There will be additional economic, qualitative and secondary outcome measurements.

Discussion

Development of the study was a collaboration between academics, commissioners and clinicians in general hospital and addiction services, made possible by the Collaboration in Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) program of research. CLAHRC was a necessary vehicle for overcoming the barriers to answering an important NHS question – how better to engage problem drinkers in a hospital setting.

Trial registration

ISRCTN47728072

【 授权许可】

   
2013 Watson et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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