Trial study design to test a bilingual digital health tool for alcohol use disorders among Latino emergency department patients.

ABSTRACT: We describe an emergency department (ED)-based, Latino patient focused, unblinded, randomized controlled trial to empirically test if automated bilingual computerized alcohol screening and brief intervention (AB-CASI), a digital health tool, is superior to standard care (SC) on measures of alcohol consumption, alcohol-related negative behaviors and consequences, and 30-day treatment engagement. The trial design addresses the full spectrum of unhealthy drinking from high-risk drinking to severe alcohol use disorder (AUD). In an effort to surmount known ED-based alcohol screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment process barriers, while addressing racial/ethnic alcohol-related health disparities among Latino groups, this trial will purposively use a digital health tool and seek

SUBMITTER: Vaca FE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7721867 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature