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The prevalence of substance use disorders (SUD) in the VA is rising, making SUD(s) among the most commonly diagnosed disorders in the VA. A substantial body of data attests to the effectiveness of substance use disorder treatment; further the predictor most consistently associated with positive addiction treatment outcomes is duration. Despite the body of evidence supporting length of treatment as one of the stronger predictors of long-term SUD outcomes, only 36% of SUD treatment programs in the VA are meeting the continuing care performance criterion specified by the Office of Quality Performance. This randomized clinical trial investigates whether substance use disorder patients assigned to telephone case monitoring (TCM) for continuing care will do better than those attending face-to-face continuing care as usual (CCAU)(standard outpatient care).
Background: The prevalence of substance use disorders (SUD) in the VA is rising, making SUD(s) among the most commonly diagnosed disorders in the VA. A substantial body of data attests to the effectiveness of substance use disorder treatment; further the predictor most consistently associated with positive addiction treatment outcomes is duration. Despite the body of evidence supporting length of treatment as one of the stronger predictors of long-term SUD outcomes, only 36% of SUD treatment programs in the VA are meeting the continuing care performance criterion specified by the Office of Quality Performance. The proposed randomized clinical trial investigates whether substance use disorder patients assigned to telephone case monitoring (TCM) for continuing care will do better than those attending face-to-face continuing care as usual (CCAU)(standard outpatient care).
Objectives: The objective of this research is to test, in a randomized clinical trial, whether in-person CCAU following intensive outpatient SUD treatment leads to better SUD outcomes when compared with TCM. In addition, we will investigate whether continuing care condition interacts with distance from providers such that telephone case monitoring (TCM) produces increasingly stronger results relative to continuing care as usual (CCAU) as distance from care increases. Should we find an interaction, we will test whether the interaction is due to TCM producing better proximal outcomes such as level of participation in continuing care and satisfaction with treatment. Finally, we will investigate the cost of providing telephone care relative to continuing care as usual.
Methods: The design of this study is a randomized controlled trial of telephone case monitoring versus face-to-face continuing care as usual with 2 sites and up to 500 patients per site recruited over 1.5 years for a total of up to 1000 patients. Patients will be involved in the intervention for up to 6 months and data collection will occur at baseline, 3, 6 and 12 months via mailed surveys. Data of interest include self-report of substance use, psychiatric symptoms, and quality of life. Data analyses will be conducted using hierarchical linear modeling.
Status: Patient recruitment has ended. Treatment and follow-up are on-going.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Telephone Case Monitoring Aftercare | Active Comparator | Telephone Case Monitoring Aftercare |
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| Continuing Care as Usual | Active Comparator | Continuing Care as Usual |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Telephone Case Monitoring | Behavioral | Telephone Case Monitoring involves telephone delivery of continuing care treatment post intensive outpatient SUD treatment. It includes brief weekly phone calls with a counselor for up to 6 months. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Rates of Substance Use | Percentage of days abstinent from alcohol use. Each person is followed for 3 months. For each person, we then calculate the number of days they were abstinent and the percentage of days abstinent (days abstinent/ all days in 3 months). | Rates of substance use measured at 3 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Psychiatric Symptoms | 3 month, 6 month and 12 month measures of psychiatric symptoms, as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Minimum observed score was 22; maximum observed score was 110. Higher score is worse. Minimum score possible is 22. Maximum score possible is 110. | Psychiatric symptoms measured at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months post randomization |
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Inclusion Criteria:
Participants will be recruited from all patients who complete at least 14 days of intensive outpatient (IOP) substance use disorder treatment over an 18-month period in 2 VA IOP SUD programs.
Exclusion Criteria:
Completion of less than 14 days of IOP treatment.
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| John D. McKellar, PhD | VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| VA Palo Alto Health Care System, Palo Alto, CA | Palo Alto | California | 94304-1290 | United States | ||
| VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center, Topeka, KS |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 22651986 | Result | McKellar J, Wagner T, Harris A, Oehlert M, Buckley S, Moos R. One-year outcomes of telephone case monitoring for patients with substance use disorder. Addict Behav. 2012 Oct;37(10):1069-74. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.03.009. Epub 2012 Mar 13. | |
| 22234384 | Result | Oser M, Cucciare M, McKellar J, Weingardt K. Correlates of hazardous drinking among Veterans with and without hepatitis C. J Behav Med. 2012 Dec;35(6):634-41. doi: 10.1007/s10865-011-9394-9. Epub 2012 Jan 11. |
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| ID | Title | Description |
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| FG000 | Telephone Case Monitoring Aftercare | Telephone Case Monitoring: Telephone Case Monitoring involves telephone delivery of continuing care treatment post intensive outpatient SUD treatment. It includes brief weekly phone calls with a counselor for up to 6 months. |
| FG001 | Continuing Care as Usual | Continuing Care as Usual: Continuing Care as Usual will include standard group outpatient SUD treatment. |
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| ID | Title | Description |
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| BG000 | Telephone Case Monitoring Aftercare | Telephone Case Monitoring: Telephone Case Monitoring involves telephone delivery of continuing care treatment post intensive outpatient SUD treatment. It includes brief weekly phone calls with a counselor for up to 6 months. |
| BG001 | Continuing Care as Usual |
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| Title | Description | Population Description | Parameter Type | Dispersion Type | Unit of Measure | Calculate Percentage | Denominator Units Selected | Denominators | Classes |
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| Type | Title | Description | Population Description | Reporting Status | Anticipated Posting Date | Parameter Type | Dispersion Type | Unit of Measure | Calculate Percentage | Time Frame | Units Analyzed | Denominator Units Selected | Arm/Group Information | Denominators | Classes | Analyses | ||||||
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| Primary | Rates of Substance Use | Percentage of days abstinent from alcohol use. Each person is followed for 3 months. For each person, we then calculate the number of days they were abstinent and the percentage of days abstinent (days abstinent/ all days in 3 months). | Posted | Mean | Standard Error | percentage of days | Rates of substance use measured at 3 months |
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Serious Adverse Events were tracked. There was no tracking of other adverse events.
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| ID | Title | Description | Deaths (Affected) | Deaths (At Risk) | Serious Events (Affected) | Serious Events (At Risk) | Other Events (Affected) | Other Events (At Risk) |
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| EG000 | Telephone Case Monitoring Aftercare | Telephone Case Monitoring: Telephone Case Monitoring involves telephone delivery of continuing care treatment post intensive outpatient SUD treatment. It includes brief weekly phone calls with a counselor for up to 6 months. SAEs were tracked, but AEs were not tracked. |
| Term | Organ System | Source Vocabulary | Assessment Type | Notes | Statistical Information |
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| hosapitalizations | General disorders |
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| Title | Organization | Phone | Extension | |
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| Todd Wagner | VA Center for Innovation to Implementation | 6504935000 | 22048 | todd.wagner@va.gov |
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| D000437 | Alcoholism |
| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
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| D019973 | Alcohol-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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| Continuing Care as Usual | Behavioral | Continuing Care as Usual will include standard group outpatient SUD treatment. |
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| Health Related Quality of Life | Physical and mental health subscales from the 12-item Medical Outcomes Study Short-form Health Survey, adapted for Veterans (VR-12). Observed scores on the MCS ranged from 2.89 to 70.39. Scores on the PCS ranged from 13.26 to 70.10. Higher scores denote better health. The minimum and maximum scores possible are 0 and 100, respectively. | 3 months, 6 months and 12 months after randomization |
| Topeka |
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| 66622 |
| United States |
| St. Louis VA Medical Center John Cochran Division, St. Louis, MO | St Louis | Missouri | 63106 | United States |
| 21620571 | Result | Austin J, McKellar JD, Moos R. The influence of co-occurring axis I disorders on treatment utilization and outcome in homeless patients with substance use disorders. Addict Behav. 2011 Sep;36(9):941-4. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.05.001. Epub 2011 May 7. |
| 19926399 | Result | Oser ML, McKellar J, Moos BS, Moos RH. Changes in ambivalence mediate the relation between entering treatment and change in alcohol use and problems. Addict Behav. 2010 Apr;35(4):367-9. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2009.10.024. Epub 2009 Oct 30. |
| 26948397 | Result | Barbosa PV, Thomas IC, Srinivas S, Buyyounouski MK, Chung BI, Chertow GM, Asch SM, Wagner TH, Brooks JD, Leppert JT. Overall Survival in Patients with Localized Prostate Cancer in the US Veterans Health Administration: Is PIVOT Generalizable? Eur Urol. 2016 Aug;70(2):227-30. doi: 10.1016/j.eururo.2016.02.037. Epub 2016 Mar 2. |
| 26951279 | Result | Wagner TH, Burstin H, Frakt AB, Krein SL, Lorenz K, Maciejewski ML, Pizer SD, Weiner M, Yoon J, Zulman DM, Asch SM. Opportunities to Enhance Value-Related Research in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. J Gen Intern Med. 2016 Apr;31 Suppl 1(Suppl 1):78-83. doi: 10.1007/s11606-015-3538-5. No abstract available. |
| 27228478 | Result | Gidwani R, Joyce N, Kinosian B, Faricy-Anderson K, Levy C, Miller SC, Ersek M, Wagner T, Mor V. Gap between Recommendations and Practice of Palliative Care and Hospice in Cancer Patients. J Palliat Med. 2016 Sep;19(9):957-63. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0514. Epub 2016 May 26. |
Continuing Care as Usual: Continuing Care as Usual will include standard group outpatient SUD treatment. |
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| Secondary | Psychiatric Symptoms | 3 month, 6 month and 12 month measures of psychiatric symptoms, as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI). Minimum observed score was 22; maximum observed score was 110. Higher score is worse. Minimum score possible is 22. Maximum score possible is 110. | Posted | Mean | Standard Error | score on a scale | Psychiatric symptoms measured at 3 months, 6 months, 12 months post randomization |
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| Secondary | Health Related Quality of Life | Physical and mental health subscales from the 12-item Medical Outcomes Study Short-form Health Survey, adapted for Veterans (VR-12). Observed scores on the MCS ranged from 2.89 to 70.39. Scores on the PCS ranged from 13.26 to 70.10. Higher scores denote better health. The minimum and maximum scores possible are 0 and 100, respectively. | Posted | Mean | Standard Error | score on a scale | 3 months, 6 months and 12 months after randomization |
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| EG001 | Continuing Care as Usual | Continuing Care as Usual: Continuing Care as Usual will include standard group outpatient SUD treatment. SAEs were tracked, but AEs were not tracked. | 0 | 454 | 92 | 454 | 0 | 0 |
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