Clinical trial NCT03278821: The Self Match Study: A Study of Informed Choice in the Treatment of Addiction
Official title: A Randomized Controlled Study of Patients Matching Themselves to Treatment Options: The Self-Match Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Alcohol Dependence
Keywords: Informed choice
Alcohol use disorder
Addiction treatment
Lead sponsor: University of Southern Denmark
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-09-12
Enrollment: 400
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to determine whether patient self-matching (as compared with treatment as usual by expert matching) improves quality of life, retention, and outcome for patients being treated for alcohol problems.

There are at least two good reasons for offering patients a choice when the goal is a change in their behavior. The first is that patients are likely to know what treatment works best for them. Secondly, being allowed to choose between options may increase compliance in treatment. As a randomized controlled trial, this study will compare the efficacy of patient self-matching versus treatment-as-usual expert matching.

The Self-Match Study is expected to increase knowledge on the importance of involving the alcohol dependent patient in choosing what treatment method is best for him/her instead of having experts to do that. The investigators expect to discover patient involvement as a way to improve compliance in treatment, hence preventing that patients drop out of treatment to early. If this hypothesis proves to be right, clinicians will have a viable strategy for matching treatment methods to patients, since the strategy does not demand further resources in the treatment system.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Fulfilling DSM-IV criteria for alcohol abuse or dependence.
2. Native Danish speaking.
3. Having no severe psychosis or cognitive impairment.
4. Accepting to participate in the study.

Exclusion Criteria:

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Primary outcomes:
measure: Reduced amount of drinking days measured by Time Line Follow Back.
timeFrame: 6 months after initiation of treatment.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Compliance measured by proportion of patients who has completed treatment.
timeFrame: 6 months after treatment start
measure: Quality of life measured by WHO's Quality of Life scale.
timeFrame: 6 months after treatment start.
measure: Personality traits, measured by NEO-FFI-3, influence on outcome.
timeFrame: 6 months after treatment start.
measure: Deviation in the chosen treatment in the Self-Match group in relation to the expected expert choice.
timeFrame: 6 months after treatment start.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Odense
country: Denmark
facility: RESCueH alcohol Studies, Unit of Clinical Alcohol Research, Psyciatric Research Unit, Clinical Institute, University of Southern Denmark
Study officials:
References:
citation: Hell ME, Miller WR, Nielsen B, Nielsen AS. Is treatment outcome improved if patients match themselves to treatment options? Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2018 Apr 6;19(1):219. doi: 10.1186/s13063-018-2592-9.