An efficacy trial of adaptive interventions for alcohol use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adaptive interventions, sometimes referred to as "stepped care", are those interventions in which the type or dosage of treatment offered to patients is tailored to baseline clinical presentation and then adjusted over time in response to patient progress or lack thereof. Currently, no adaptive brief interventions exist specifically for alcohol use disorder (AUD).

Method

This study used a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial design with 160 individuals with AUD recruited both locally and nationally who had a goal to reduce or abstain from drinking. Participants received brief advice (BA) and then the study reassessed them three weeks later; the study randomized those who did not respond to BA, defined as reducing their drinking to low-risk guidelines, t

SUBMITTER: Morgenstern J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7900613 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature