Approach avoidance training versus Sham in veterans with alcohol use disorder: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Alcohol use disorder (AUD) is highly prevalent and commonly co-occurs with other psychiatric disorders among Veterans. Provisional evidence supports the use of Approach Avoidance Training (AAT) - a form of computer-delivered cognitive bias modification designed to target implicit approach bias for alcohol-related cues - as an adjunctive program to treat AUD. However, the extent to which AAT is effective for improving AUD recovery outcomes in outpatient Veteran samples and those with psychiatric comorbidities has been understudied to date. Here we describe a double-blind randomized controlled trial of AAT versus a comparison condition (Sham) being conducted in Veterans with comorbid psychiatric conditions completing outpatient standard care.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Caudle MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10337098 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature