Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment for Drug Use

Study Overview
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Brief Summary
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Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) is a comprehensive, integrated public health approach to identify and deliver a spectrum of early detection and intervention services for substance use in general medical care settings. These settings, such as emergency department visits, offer a potential teachable moment because patients may have perceptions of vulnerability about their health, and therefore be particularly receptive to screening and counseling. There is mounting scientific evidence suggesting SBIRT is effective in reducing alcohol use at varying levels of severity in a myriad of health care settings including primary care, emergency departments, and trauma centers. Although the SBIRT approach has shown promise for alcohol, relatively little is known about its effectiveness for adult illicit drug use specifically. This will be among the first studies to rigorously test the SBIRT approach for drug use. It will evaluate the effectiveness of SBIRT for drug use and related factors for 700 multi-ethnic ED patients using a two-group randomized repeated-measures design in which biologically-validated drug use abstinence and related outcomes of an intervention group are compared to those of an attention-placebo control group. Over a 14-month period, bilingual/bicultural Health Educators recruited participants who reported past 30-day illicit drug use in excess of risky alcohol use from the waiting areas of two large hospital's ED and trauma units. Following consent procedures and standardized baseline assessments, Health Educators randomly assigned participants to one of the two conditions. The intervention group received Life Shift, an SBIRT drug use intervention matched to the participant's drug use risk level. The control group received the same type and quantity of intervention in an unrelated area-Driving and Traffic Safety (Shift Gears program), also matched to their driving/traffic risk level. A 6-month face-to-face follow-up visit by trained measurement technicians blind to the participant's assigned condition collected standardized self-report past 30-day drug use measures (ASI-Lite)and hair samples for validating self-reported abstinence. Additional outcome variables are changes in the frequency of drug use, functional status measures (i.e., medical problems, psychiatric problems, and alcohol use), and health care utilization.

Official Title
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Screening and Brief Intervention for Latino and Non-Latino White Drug Users

Conditions
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Drug Abuse

Intervention / Treatment
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* Behavioral: Screening/motivational drug intervention
* Behavioral: Motivational placebo intervention


Participation Criteria
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria: 18 or over speak English or Spanish competent to give consent and interact drug use risk higher than alcohol use risk Exclusion Criteria: under 18 non english or spanish speaker no telephone where one can be reached too injured/sick to participate alcohol use risk higher than drug use risk

Ages Eligible for Study
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Minimum Age: 18 Years
Maximum Age: 100 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study
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All

Accepts Healthy Volunteers
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Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Study Plan
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How is the study designed?
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Design Details

Primary Purpose: Treatment
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Double


Arms and Interventions

| Participant Group/Arm | Intervention/Treatment |
| --- | --- |
| Experimental: Screening/motivational drug intervention<br>Screening and brief intervention counseling matched to patient's risk level delivered in the ER | Behavioral: Screening/motivational drug intervention<br>* Screening and brief motivational intervention delivered in the ER to reduce drug use<br>* Other names: SBIRT;|
| Placebo Comparator: Motivational placebo intervention<br>Screening and brief intervention for driving and traffic safety | Behavioral: Motivational placebo intervention<br>* Screening and brief motivational intervention delivered in the ER to reduce driving and traffic risk<br>|

What is the study measuring?
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Primary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| past 30 day drug use abstinence | Based on the addiction severity index-Lite | 6 months post intervention | 

Secondary Outcome Measures

| Outcome Measure | Measure Description | Time Frame |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Frequency of drug use | Based on composite score from the Addiction Severity Index-Lite | 6 months post intervention | 

 Terms related to the study
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Keywords Provided by Centre Hospitalier Valida
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drug use; emergency department; brief intervention