Clinical trial NCT01081197: Somatic Disease Among Alcohol Abusers in an Out-day Patients' Clinic
Official title: Somatic Disease Among Alcohol Abusers in an Out-day Patients' Clinic. A Neglected Area
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: HEART DISEASE
Liver Failure
DEPRESSIVE DISORDER
Alcoholic Neuropathy
Keywords: heart failure
liver
depression
neuropathy
Lead sponsor: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2010-03-05
Enrollment: 150
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Observational model: COHORT
Time perspective: OTHER
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: Alcohol abusers referred to the out-day patients' clinic at Dep. of Psychiatry, Levanger Hospital, Norway

Brief summary: Alcohol abuse is associated with a variety of clinical diseases, but studies on prevalence of different somatic diseases among alcohol abusers are lacking. Studies on populations in an out-day patients' clinic are also lacking.

The investigators aim to study somatic health standard in an out-day patients' clinic population of alcohol abusers, with regard to prevalence of different kinds of somatic diseases, and how the interaction of somatic and psychiatric treatment can influence on patients quality of life. Clinical examination including blood samples and echocardiographic examinations in all participants, other additional examinations (as x-ray, CT or MRI if indicated by clinical findings).

Detailed description: Retrospective methods will be used to study former somatic disease, cross-section design to study present somatic disease and prospective design to study quality of life, psychiatric and somatic health after combination of psychiatric and somatic examinations and treatment.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Alcohol abusers reffered to the out-day patients' clinic at Dep. of Psychiatry, Levanger Hospital, Norway

Exclusion Criteria:

* Not consenting to participate
* Not able to consent

Primary outcomes:
measure: Prevalence of different kinds of somatic disease
timeFrame: 3 months after inclusion
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Prevalence of former somatic disease
timeFrame: 3 months after inclusion
measure: Outcome of psychiatric and somatic treatment of alcohol abusers
timeFrame: 1 year after stopped inclusion
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Levanger
country: Norway
facility: Levanger Hospital, Dep. of Psychiatry
Study officials:
affiliation: Helse Nord-Trøndelag HF
name: Erling Dalen, MD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
References:
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citation: Moss M, Burnham EL. Alcohol abuse in the critically ill patient. Lancet. 2006 Dec 23;368(9554):2231-42. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69490-7.
citation: Dalen E, Holmen J, Nordahl HM. Somatic health of patients at an outpatient clinic for substance abuse. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen. 2015 Jan 27;135(2):127-31. doi: 10.4045/tidsskr.13.0801. eCollection 2015 Jan 27. English, Norwegian.