An interventional study of Personalized Normative Feedback and Brief Therapeutic Intervention in Acute Alcohol Intoxication, sponsored by Rennes University Hospital. Terminated at 5 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 26 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2019-03-27.
Sponsored by Rennes University Hospital · Not applicable, Interventional, and Other
BTI (Brief Therapeutic Intervention) motivates individuals admitted to ED (Emergency Department) for acute intoxication to take actions to prevent further alcohol-related issues. The present project aims at underpinning this intervention by actively involving patients in the monitoring of their alcohol-related risk following discharge. While several web-based preventive interventions towards alcohol already exist, the repeated delivering of PNF (Personalized Normative Feedback) using mobile technology after a BTI constitutes a novel approach to reduce alcohol-related harms. Investigators propose to test the effect of a mobile PNF following a BTI delivered by a psychologist during an ED visit for alcohol intoxication. The mobile PNF will be additionally delivered once a month in the 6-months period after discharge, and once every two months in the following 6-month period, via a smartphone application connected to a central server. The study will include 18-26 years old adults, as this population includes most active students and is often lost to follow-up after ED visits; and aims the reduction of heavy drinking occasions, as this issue account for most of alcohol-related ED visits in this population.
The study will begin simultaneously in all the centers, in September, at the beginning of the university year. When patients will be admitted in the ED for alcohol intoxication, they will first meet the entry nurse, who will make the orientation as usual. Participants will be marked as eligible for the study, and a breath test or a blood alcohol test will be performed. On the following morning, a psychologist will evaluate all potential patients, and check the inclusion criteria. In case of eligibility, the study procedure will be explained and the patient and a medical doctor present in the ED will sign an informed consent. The patient will be included and a baseline assessment will be performed using a web-based questionnaire implemented on a digital tablet. These inputs will automatically generate an identification number and a personal dashboard on a centralized server. Individual codes will be also given to each patient for accessing their personal dashboard on the server from a home computer. The patient will then be randomized, with stratification on center, sex, and absence or presence of a daily consumption of cannabis, between the intervention and the control groups. The psychologist will then perform a brief therapeutic intervention for both groups. Investigators plan to train all psychologists all together to the brief intervention. Then a smartphone application will be installed on the patient's smartphone. Follow-up assessments will be conducted 6 and 12 months after baseline using the same questionnaire, through the smartphone application or on the server website. The application will recall the patient by the means of automatic notifications at 6 and 12 months. Data will be push to the server with the identification number, without any other nominal information. In case patients do not perform the evaluation one week after the expected date, they will be contacted by any means (telephone, postal mail, email or SMS with a link to the software) by a research assistant to recall them to do the evaluation. Participants will be compensated using gift vouchers for the time lost for the interview.
Experimental group :
A personalized normative feedback using a tablet application will be performed after the BTI at ED. The application installed on the patient's smartphone will automatically repeat the PNF, using a local algorithm, once a month over a 6-months period after discharge, and once every two months in the following 6-month period. It will be also possible to perform the PNF on the server website.
Control group :
Patients in the control group will receive the BTI at the ED. The application installed on this group will only realize the evaluation questionnaire.
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A personalized normative feedback using a tablet application will be performed after the BTI at ED. The application installed on the patient's smartphone will automatically repeat the PNF, using a local algorithm, once a month over a 6-months period after discharge, and once every two months in the following 6-month period. It will be also possible to perform the PNF on the server website.
Other: Personalized Normative Feedback · Other: Brief Therapeutic Intervention · Other: Evaluation questionnaire
The control group will not receive further counseling or information after the baseline BTI at ED. The application installed in this group will be only used for the evaluation questionnaire at 6 and 12 months
Other: Brief Therapeutic Intervention · Other: Evaluation questionnaire
This "PNF" technique use information designed to correct normative misperceptions to reduce heavy drinking. Much of the alcohol consumption among college students stems from the fairly widespread perception that one's peers expect regular and sometimes extreme drinking participation (subjective drinking norms). The PNF approach is designed to counter this perception by giving students accurate figures on how much their peers actually drink (actual drinking norms). It also aims to improve students' understanding of alcohol use in general and the firmly established negative outcomes associated with short - and long-term patterns of excessive drinking.
BTI are brief (typically one session 20-30 mns) and incorporate some or all of the following elements:feedback on the person's alcohol use and any alcohol-related harm; clarification as to what constitutes low risk alcohol consumption; information on the harms associated with risky alcohol use; benefits of reducing intake; motivational enhancement; analysis of high risk situations for drinking and coping strategies; and the development of a personal plan to reduce consumption.
The patient have to fill the same evaluation questionnaire at J0, M6 and M12
Reduction of the number of heavy drinking occasions
Reduction (expressed as a percentage) of the number of heavy drinking occasions (= 7 or more standard drinks of 10 g pure alcohol in one occasion) in the precedent month between baseline (nbaseline) and the evaluation done 12 months after the admission in the ED (n12 months) : Change = (nbaseline - n12months) / nbaseline
Time frame: at 12 months
Reduction of the number of standard drinks
Reduction of the number of standard drinks per heavy drinking occasions in the month before the evaluation (done 6 and 12months after the admission in the ED) versus the number at baseline (in the month before the admission to the ED);
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
Reduction of the number of heavy drinking occasions
Reduction of the number of heavy drinking occasions in the month before the evaluation (done 6 months after the admission in the ED) versus the number at baseline (in the month before the admission to the ED);
Time frame: at 6 months
Reduction of the number of alcohol intoxications
Reduction of the number of alcohol intoxications (participantively defined by the patient as drunkenness) in the month before the evaluation (done 6 and 12 months after the admission in the ED) versus the number at baseline (in the month before the admission to the ED);
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
Reduction of the number of binge drinking
Reduction of the number of binge drinking (see definition above) in the month before the evaluation (done 6 and 12 months after the admission in the ED) versus the number at baseline (in the month before the admission to the ED);
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
Reduction of total alcohol consumption
Reduction of total alcohol consumption (in mean standard drinks per week) in the month before the evaluation (done 6 and 12 months after the admission in the ED) versus the number at baseline (in the month before the admission to the ED);
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
Alcohol related problems
Alcohol related problems in the 6 months and in the year before the evaluations
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
Hospitalisations or admissions in the ED, injuries, violence, unwanted or unprotect sexual behaviours, loss of employment or school problems.
Hospitalisations or admissions in the ED, injuries, violence, unwanted or unprotect sexual behaviours, loss of employment or school problems.
Time frame: at 6 months and at 12 months
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