Individually tailored E-health interventions for primary care patients with problematic alcohol use and co-occurring depressive symptoms (Phase 1)

Individually tailored E-health interventions for primary care patients with problematic alcohol use and co-occurring depressive symptoms (Phase 1) - ITE (Phase 1)

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Phase 1

Study type

Interventional

Source

DRKS

Registry ID

DRKS00007841

Enrollment

Registered

2015-08-31

Start date

2015-12-09

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2025-04-07

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Conditions

At-risk alcohol consumption (average daily intake of alcohol > 12g for women / >24g men or >= one occasion a month with >= 4 alcoholic drinks for women / >= 5 drinks for men). At-risk alcohol consumption is considered as a risk factor for Harmful Alcohol use (ICD-10 F10.1), Alcohol Dependence Syndrome (ICD-10 F10.2), and other alcohol attributable disease. subsyndromal depressive symptoms, majordepression (ICD-10 F32) or dysthymia (ICD-10 F34.1) F10.1: Harmful use of alcohol F10.2: Alcohol dep

Interventions

Group 1: Participants will receive computer-based individually tailored personalized motivational feedback across different communication channels (e.g. print, e-mail, SMS, Internet) over a period of

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 64 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1) At-risk alcohol consumption (average daily alcohol use of >12g women / 24g men or >= one occasion a month with >= 4 alcoholic drinks for women / >= 5 drinks for men) 2) subsyndromal depressive symptoms, major depression or dysthymia in the past 12 months.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Severe episode of major depression within the past 12 month and depressive symptoms in the past 2 weeks; 2. Moderate/severe alcohol use disorder according to DSM-5; 3. Illiteracy, cognitive impairment; 4. Currently in psychotherapeutic treatment 5. Acute or severe illness, which did not allow participation in the study; 6. less than weekly use of the Internet and no accessibility by cell phone.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
percentage of included patients receiving at least 50% of the intended intervention units (individualized feed-back in form of letters, e-mail or SMS)	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Acceptance and usability of the intervention documented by qualitative reports which were derived from focus groups.	—

Countries

Germany

Contacts

Public ContactChristian Meyer

Universitätsmedizin GreifswaldInstitut für Sozialmedizin und Prävention

chmeyer@uni-greifswald.de03834/867723

Outcome results

None listed

Source: DRKS (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026