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TerminatedNCT01661517Updated Oct 18, 2016

Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment With Substance Use Disorders in the Emergency Room Setting

An Early Phase 1 interventional study of Motivational interviewing and referral to treatment in Substance Use, sponsored by University of Alabama at Birmingham. Terminated at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 19 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2016-10-18.

Sponsored by University of Alabama at Birmingham · Early Phase 1, Interventional, and Screening

Why this study was terminated
incomplete data
Phase
Early Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
5,271
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
19 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

This study will be a quality improvement project to review the effectiveness and barriers to effectiveness of a new clinical program in the emergency room to provide substance use screening followed by brief motivational interviewing and referral to treatment for patients who meet criteria for problem substance use. This study will consist of a chart review of the results of the screens performed by substance use counselors and correlating them to institutional variables such as wait time in the emergency room and length of stay as well as to patient variables obtained by chart review such as medical diagnosis and sociodemographic variables.

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Conditions studied

  • Substance Use

Keywords

  • substance use treatment
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In context

Emergencies

1,692 studies on the registry are indexed under Emergencies; 333 are open to participants now.

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Lead sponsor

University of Alabama at Birmingham is the lead sponsor of 1,396 studies on the registry; 284 are open to participants now.

Of its 156 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 124 (79%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
19 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • Age 19 and older Presentation to UAB Emergency Department

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Younger than 19 Prisoners
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Study design

Phase
Early Phase 1
Primary purpose
Screening
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
5,271 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Lifestyle Counseling

    motivational interviewer

    Behavioral: Motivational interviewing and referral to treatment

Interventions

  • BehavioralMotivational interviewing and referral to treatment
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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. substance use

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

1 site
  • University of Alabama Birmingham
    Birmingham, Alabama 35205, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Oct 18, 2016, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT01661517
Lead sponsor
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Aug 9, 2012
Start date
Sep 2011
Primary completion
Sep 2013
Completion
May 2015
Last update
Oct 18, 2016

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
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