Alcohol Use Disorder, Hazardous Alcohol Use
Conditions
Keywords
social support, digital intervention, mutual-help groups, alcohol use disorder, addiction recovery, peer support
Brief summary
This study is a pilot randomized controlled trial to evaluate feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a digital intervention called Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together! (LDART) in adults with alcohol use disorder, relative to a control group.
Interventions
DEVICELDART
Let's Do Addiction Recovery Together! (LDART) is a web-based intervention grounded in social cognitive theory that is designed to reduce hazardous alcohol use. It has three active ingredients: 1) daily recovery goal setting and tracking, 2) motivational video, audio, and written messages from individuals in recovery, and 3) information on several community-based recovery groups (e.g., mutual-help groups, recovery community centers) that provide free, publicly available meetings and activities. Participants receive a text message reminder each night to go to the website to complete the activities, and a text message reminder each morning of the goal they set for themselves, with the option to change it. It only takes a few minutes to use LDART each day over the 4-week intervention period.
BEHAVIORALPsychoeducational control
This is a 20-page psychoeducational booklet created by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse \& Alcoholism (NIAAA) called "Rethinking Drinking". It contains several suggestions, strategies and resources for helping people who want to reduce their alcohol use. Participants will be encouraged to access the booklet for a few minutes each night over the 4-week intervention period.
Sponsors
Yale University
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Currently reside in Connecticut, USA * Have a smartphone that can send and receive text messages and have internet access that can be access over the course of a month * Had ≥5 heavy drinking days (defined as ≥4 or ≥5 drinks in one sitting for women and men, respectively) in the past 28 days * Alcohol Symptom Checklist ≥4, indicating moderate/severe AUD * Have some self-reported desire to cut down or quit drinking
Exclusion criteria
* Unable to provide informed consent, as assessed by the consent quiz * Unable to speak, read, or write in English * Vulnerable population status * Unlikely to be able to complete study procedures in the next 2-3 months
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment rate | From enrollment to the final assessment time point (Day 56) | The percentage of eligible participants who are enrolled relative to the total number of eligible potential participants who completed the screening. |
| Accrual rate | From enrollment to the final assessment time point (Day 56) | The rate of enrollment, defined as number of participants enrolled per month. |
| Retention rate | From enrollment to the final assessment time point (Day 56) | The percentage of enrolled participants who complete all study-related procedures (i.e., assessments at 3 monthly time points). |
| Intervention engagement | From beginning the intervention (Day 1) to the end of the intervention period (Day 28) | Number of nights that participants in the active condition completed the activities on the LDART website, out of 28 nights. |
| Intervention acceptability | The second assessment time point (post-intervention, Day 28) | Rating scores on the end-user version of the Mobile App Rating Scale (uMARS). Total score range 1-5 with higher scores indicating a better quality app. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Change from baseline in number of drinking days | Baseline (Day 0), Post-intervention (Day 28), 1-month post-intervention (Day 56) | Change in self-reported number of drinking days in the past 28 days, as measured using the Timeline Follow-back. |
| Change from baseline in number of heavy drinking days | Baseline (Day 0), Post-intervention (Day 28), 1-month post-intervention (Day 56) | Change in self-reported number of heavy drinking days (defined as 4 or more drinks for women or 5 or more drinks for in one sitting) in the past 28 days, as measured using the Timeline Follow-back. |
| Change from baseline in number of hours spent engaging with recovery groups | Baseline (Day 0), Post-intervention (Day 28), 1-month post-intervention (Day 56) | Self-reported number of hours spent engaging with recovery groups in the past 28 days |
Countries
United States
Contacts
PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATORLi Yan McCurdy, PhD
Yale University
Outcome results
None listed