An online self-help program for parents whose partners abuse alcohol

Conditions

Alcohol use disorder

Ola Siljeholm, Veronica Ekström

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice2023-02-156 citations

An online self-directed program combining Community Reinforcement Approach and Family Training and parenting training for concerned significant others sharing a child with a person with problematic alcohol consumption: a randomized controlled trial.

Siljeholm O, Lindner P, Johansson M, Hammarberg A.

2022-09-056 citations

10.1186/s13722-022-00332-3

Combining online Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) with a parent-training programme for parents with partners suffering from alcohol use disorder: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Philip Lindner, Ola Siljeholm, Magnus Johansson, Martin Onslow Forster, Sven Andréasson et al. (6 authors)

BMJ Open2018-08-019 citations

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020879

Interventions

Participants who share a child showing mental health problems with a person with AUD, but do not present AUD themselves, will be recruited from the general public and randomized 1:1 to:

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Participant: 18+ years old 2. Participant: sufficient grasp of Swedish 3. Participant's co-parent with AUD: meets AUD criteria, defined as an AUDIT-C score of >3/4 (women/men) and/or meeting >1 ICD-10 dependence criteria 4. Shared child: aged 3-11 5. Shared child: lives >3 days per month with AUD parent 6. Shared child: scores above the clinical cut-off on any of the five sub-scales of the SDQ

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Participant: Meets AUD criteria (as defined above) 2. Participant: use of illicit drugs at least one per week during last 12 months 3. Participant: score in the severe range on all three sub-scales of the DASS, or in the extremely severe range on two of the sub-scales 4. Participant: already participates in an intervention aimed at CSOs of individuals with AUD 5. Shared child: has participated in an intervention aimed at children of individuals with AUD in the last 12 months 6. Shared child: has been exposed to family violence in the last 3 months 7. Participant's co-parent with AUD: use of illicit drugs at least one per week during last 12 months

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Participant's rating of the child's total score on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) for children, measured at screening (baseline), mid-treatment (completion of 2/4 modules or maximum of 4 weeks into treatment), post-treatment (4/4 modules or maximum of 8 weeks into treatment), 3, 12 and 24 months after completing treatment	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
All outcomes are measured at screening (baseline), mid-treatment (completion of 2/4 modules or maximum of 4 weeks into treatment), post-treatment (4/4 modules or maximum of 8 weeks into treatment), 3, 12 and 24 months after completing treatment: 1. Child's externalizing subscore of the SDQ 2. Child's internalizing subscore of the SDQ 3. Participant's depression subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 4. Participant's anxiety subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 5. Participant's stress subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 6. Participant's alcohol consumption measured using the three-item Alcohol Use Disorder - Identification Test (AUDIT-C) 7. Participant's parental self-efficacy (custom scale) 8. AUD parent's alcohol consumption measured using the AUDIT-C 9. AUD parent's number of ICD-10 alcohol dependence criteria met 10. Participant-child relationship quality measured using the the Adult Child Relationship Scale (ACRS) 11. Help-seeking behavior among the participant, AUD parent, and child	—

Measure

Time frame

All outcomes are measured at screening (baseline), mid-treatment (completion of 2/4 modules or maximum of 4 weeks into treatment), post-treatment (4/4 modules or maximum of 8 weeks into treatment), 3, 12 and 24 months after completing treatment: 1. Child's externalizing subscore of the SDQ 2. Child's internalizing subscore of the SDQ 3. Participant's depression subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 4. Participant's anxiety subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 5. Participant's stress subscore on the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) 6. Participant's alcohol consumption measured using the three-item Alcohol Use Disorder - Identification Test (AUDIT-C) 7. Participant's parental self-efficacy (custom scale) 8. AUD parent's alcohol consumption measured using the AUDIT-C 9. AUD parent's number of ICD-10 alcohol dependence criteria met 10. Participant-child relationship quality measured using the the Adult Child Relationship Scale (ACRS) 11. Help-seeking behavior among the participant, AUD parent, and child

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Countries

Sweden

Outcome results

None listed