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The present study is dedicated to empowering individuals close to an addicted person (i.e. concerned significant others, CSOs) to create changes in their family environment: changes that increase the likelihood of the addicted person seeking treatment.
The Danish National Clinical Guideline for the treatment of alcohol dependence recommends that alcohol treatment centers offer interventions aimed at CSOs, providing them with the support and empowerment that will enable them to motivate the problem drinker to enter treatment. In the US, the Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) intervention has been shown to offer the most effective support to CSOs. CRAFT has consistently demonstrated a two to three times' higher impact on getting individual with an alcohol use disorder (AUD) to attend treatment, compared to other kinds of interventions. Studies of the intervention so far have, however, been small, and the format used in the delivery of CRAFT has not been fully investigated.
The aim of the present cluster randomized controlled trial is to implement and investigate CRAFT in a Danish context and with sufficient sample size. Consecutive CSOs will through cluster randomization be randomized to receive either CRAFT in a group format, CRAFT in an individual format, or a control condition, consisting of self-help material only. The primary outcome of the study will be the rate of individuals with AUD entering treatment following the intervention targeted at the CSOs within three months from its initiation. Data will be collected from all CSOs at baseline, three, and six months after baseline.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Individual CRAFT | Experimental | Individual CRAFT is offered to 135 participants and each participants are going to get 6 sessions. |
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| Group CRAFT | Experimental | Open group CRAFT is offered to 135 participants in 6 sessions. |
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| Self-help materials | Experimental | Self-help materials (control group) are going to be offered a self-help book, because it is unethically not to offer any intervention, as the CRAFT intervention in early studies have shown to be very effectful |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| CRAFT | Behavioral | CRAFT is a counseling/therapist to concern significant others to get their loved one, with an alcohol use disorder, into treatment |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Whether the drinker has sought treatment for her/his alcohol use disorder | The proportion of problem drinkers, who enter alcohol treatment centers from baseline and until three months after their CSOs enrolled in the CRAFT study. | 3 months after baseline |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Changes in the anxiety, - depression and concern symptoms of concern significant others following CRAFT intervention | 3 and 6 months after baseline | |
| Improvement in the relationship between the concern significant other and the drinker before and after CRAFT intervention |
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Inclusion criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Anette Søgaard Nielsen, Ass. Prof. | Unit of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark | Study Chair |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Unit if Clinical Alcohol Research | Odense | 5000 | Denmark | |||
| Research Unit of Psychiatry, Psychiatric Unit Odense - University function |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 35538465 | Derived | Hellum R, Bilberg R, Andersen K, Bischof G, Hesse M, Nielsen AS. Primary Outcome from a cluster-randomized trial of three formats for delivering Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) to the significant others of problem drinkers. BMC Public Health. 2022 May 10;22(1):928. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13293-8. | |
| 30871596 | Derived |
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| ID | Term |
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| D000437 | Alcoholism |
| ID | Term |
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| D019973 | Alcohol-Related Disorders |
| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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Cluster randomization Clinical trial with 3 arms - individual, group, and self-help intervention.
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Measured by the Relationship Happiness Scale
| 3 and 6 months after baseline |
| Changes in number of sick leave days for concern significant others from 6 months before to 6 months after enrollment in the study. | 6 months after baseline |
| Changes in quality of life among concern significant others. | Measured by WHO's quality of life scale "WHOQol-Bref - Danish version" | 3 and 6 months after baseline |
| Odense C |
| 5000 |
| Denmark |
| Hellum R, Nielsen AS, Bischof G, Andersen K, Hesse M, Ekstrom CT, Bilberg R. Community reinforcement and family training (CRAFT) - design of a cluster randomized controlled trial comparing individual, group and self-help interventions. BMC Public Health. 2019 Mar 14;19(1):307. doi: 10.1186/s12889-019-6632-5. |