Clinical trial NCT01135420: Dual Diagnosis Inpatients: Telephone Monitoring RCT to Improve Outcomes
Official title: Dual Diagnosis Inpatients: Telephone Monitoring RCT to Improve Outcomes
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: PHASE2
Conditions: Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)
Lead sponsor: VA Office of Research and Development
Sponsor class: FED
First posted: 2010-06-02
Enrollment: 406
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: This research program will improve the care and treatment outcomes of dually diagnosed veterans who receive inpatient psychiatry care, and decrease their use of VA inpatient mental health services. It will increase the use of substance abuse outpatient care and 12-step groups to benefit recovery, reduce rehospitalizations, and reduce costs for VA.

Detailed description: Background:

Substance use disorders (SUDs) are highly prevalent among veteran psychiatry inpatients. Dual substance use and psychiatric disorders are related to poor outcomes and rehospitalizations, which are quite costly. However, relatively little is known about how to effectively help dually diagnosed psychiatry inpatients. Telephone Monitoring (TM) is effective among SUD patients at increasing SUD continuing care and self-help utilization and improving SUD outcomes. This study will build on these findings and contribute important new clinical knowledge by determining whether TM is similarly effective when adapted for dually diagnosed veteran psychiatry inpatients. It will evaluate the effectiveness of a manual-guided TM intervention.

Objectives:

Primary hypotheses are that patients in the TM condition, compared to patients in usual care (UC), will attend more SUD continuing care sessions and 12-step group meetings, and have better SUD and psychiatric outcomes. Secondary hypotheses are that TM patients will have fewer and delayed rehospitalizations, and their better outcomes will be mediated by SUD outpatient treatment and 12-step group participation.

Methods:

This study will take place at two VAs: Palo Alto (VISN 21) and Ann Arbor (VISN 11). Dually diagnosed patients in psychiatry inpatient treatment will be randomly assigned to UC or TM. Patients in the TM condition will receive an in-person session while in treatment, followed by monitoring over the telephone for three months after discharge. The intervention will incorporate motivational interviewing to monitor patients' substance use, facilitate entry into outpatient treatment if a relapse occurs, and encourage 12-step self-help group participation. Patients will be assessed at baseline, end-of-intervention, and six months and one-year post-intervention for primary and secondary outcomes and non-VA health care; VA health care will be assessed with VA databases. GLMM analyses will be conducted to compare the UC and TM groups on course of primary and secondary outcomes over time; Cox regression models will compare groups on time to rehospitalization; and sequential regression analyses will examine whether outcomes associated with TM are mediated by more SUD continuing care and 12-step group participation.

Status:

As of this time, this project is in the follow-up data collection phase.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Dually diagnosed veteran in VA inpatient psychiatry treatment

Exclusion Criteria:

* Current diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
* too psychiatrically unstable or cognitively impaired to understand informed consent and other study procedures
* does not have ongoing telephone access

Primary outcomes:
measure: Readiness to Attend Substance Use Disorder Continuing Care
timeFrame: 3 months post-intervention
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Palo Alto
country: United States
facility: VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
state: California
city: Ann Arbor
country: United States
facility: VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI
state: Michigan
Study officials:
affiliation: VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA
name: Christine Timko, PhD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
citation: Timko C, Cronkite RC, McKellar J, Zemore S, Moos RH. Dually diagnosed patients' benefits of mutual-help groups and the role of social anxiety. J Subst Abuse Treat. 2013 Feb;44(2):216-23. doi: 10.1016/j.jsat.2012.05.007. Epub 2012 Jul 3.
citation: Timko C, Bonn-Miller MO, McKellar JD, Ilgen MA. Detoxification history and two-year outcomes of substance use disorder treatment and mutual-help group participation. Journal of drug issues. 2014 Jan 1; 44(1):4-21.
citation: Woodhead E, Cowden Hindash A, Timko C. Dual Diagnosis, Mutual-Help Use, and Outcomes: A Naturalistic Follow-Up. Journal of Dual Diagnosis. 2013 May 3; 9(2):158-164.