Project QUIT (Quit Using Drugs Intervention Trial): a randomized controlled trial of a primary care-based multi-component brief intervention to reduce risky drug use.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To assess the effect of a multi-component primary care delivered brief intervention for reducing risky psychoactive drug use (RDU) among patients identified by screening.

Design

Multicenter single-blind two-arm randomized controlled trial of patients enrolled from February 2011 to November 2012 with 3-month follow-up. Randomization and allocation to trial group were computer-generated.

Setting

Primary care waiting rooms of five federally qualified health centers in Los Angeles County (LAC), USA.

Participants

A total of 334 adult primary care patients (171 intervention; 163 control) with RDU scores (4-26) on the World Health Organization (WHO) Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test (ASSIST) self-administered on tablet computers. 261 (78%)

SUBMITTER: Gelberg L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4948983 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature