Substance Use Disorders
Conditions
Keywords
Substance use disorders, Adolescents, Retention, Mobile telephone, Follow-up, Interactive voice response
Brief summary
The present study, in an out-patient setting for substance use treatment in adolescents, examines the effect on treatment retention of a mobile telephone follow-up technique (interactive voice response), with or without personal feedback. Subjects in treatment for substance use disorders will be followed by automated mobile telephone contact with questions about psychiatric symptoms and substance use, and the investigators hypothesize that this technique, including a personal feedback reporting back to the client whether his or her status is changing in one way or another, may increase the treatment retention, possibly by means of an intensified treatment contact.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALInteractive voice response with personal feedback
Personal feedback is given at the end of each automated telephone follow-up call, and reports back to the patient whether his och her symptom status is better, worse or equal, compared to the previous telephone call.
BEHAVIORALInteractive voice response without personal feedback
Control condition. Identical follow-up but without personal feedback.
Sponsors
Region Skane
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
No minimum to 25 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient applying for substance use disorder treatment at out-patient facility Maria Malmö, Malmö, Sweden, who are less than 25 years old and who provide written informed consent to participate in the study.
Exclusion criteria
* Patients who do not provide written informed consent to the study, or whose psychiatric condition or language difficulties make it impossible for them to understand patient information and give informed consent to the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Retention in substance use disorder treatment | 3 months | Duration of retention in treatment and whether the client remains in treatment at 3 months or not. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Improvement in substance use | 3 months | Do patients in the intervention group improve more than in the control group, with respect to substance use (alcohol/drug use), during the duration of the interactive voice response intervention? |
| Improvements in psychiatric symptoms | 3 months | Do patients in the intervention group improve more than in the control group, with respect to psychiatric symptoms, during the duration of the interactive voice response intervention? |
Other
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Clinical course with respect to emergency visits | 12 months |
| Clinical course with respect to hospitalizations | 12 months |
| Clinical course with respect to repeated treatment episodes | 12 months |
Countries
Sweden
Outcome results
None listed