An interventional study of AUDIT brief intervention and Pamphlet on alcohol use in Alcohol Drinking, sponsored by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. Completed at 5 sites in Chile. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 45 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-05-22.
Sponsored by Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile · Not applicable, Interventional, and Prevention
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.
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.
Bimonthly visits will be performed to the centers by a member of the team to assure that the protocol is being followed and data audit.
The participants will receive an economical incentive for the follow up visit. Participants will be reached throw telephone at least twice to schedule that visit. If not possible, a telephonic outcome assessment or a domiciliary visit will be performed to minimize the lost in follow up.
925 studies on the registry are indexed under Alcohol Drinking; 172 are open to participants now.
This study's enrollment of 342 is above the median of 108 across 802 interventional studies indexed under Alcohol Drinking.
Browse Alcohol Drinking studies →Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile is the lead sponsor of 215 studies on the registry; 56 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
AUDIT brief intervention
Behavioral: AUDIT brief intervention · Other: Pamphlet on alcohol use
Pamphlet on alcohol use
Other: Pamphlet on alcohol use
Intervention will be provided following the Chilean ministry of health implementation manual on the AUDIT associated brief intervention. The pamphlet on alcohol use will be provided to participants.
Only the pamphlet on alcohol use will be provided (the same received by participants on the intervention group). This is not an active intervention based on the current literature.
AUDIT score
Total of questions 1 to 10 (minimum 0, maximum 40)
Time frame: 6 months post brief intervention
AUDIT-C score
Total of questions 1 to 3 (minimum 0, maximum 12)
Time frame: 6 months post brief intervention
Plan to share: No
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