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2024-05-06 @ 6:56 PM
Last Modification Date:
2024-10-26 @ 2:57 PM
Study NCT ID:
NCT05837611
Status:
RECRUITING
Last Update Posted:
2023-05-06
First Post:
2023-04-19
Brief Title:
Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking
Sponsor:
University of North Texas Denton TX
Organization:
University of North Texas Denton TX
Study Overview
Official Title:
Piloting Deposit Contracts to Increase Accessibility of a Contingency Management Intervention to Reduce Problematic Drinking
Status:
RECRUITING
Status Verified Date:
2023-05
Last Known Status:
None
Delayed Posting:
No
If Stopped, Why?:
Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access:
False
If Expanded Access, NCT#:
N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status:
N/A
Acronym:
None
Brief Summary:
This study will examine the effects of an incentive-based intervention for reducing alcohol use that would be sustainable easily accessible intervention using remote alcohol monitoring and deposit contracts targeting individuals who would not be reached by more traditional forms of treatment due to barriers such as time constraints attitudes and stigma
Detailed Description:
Deposit contracts are effective at treating a wide variety of problems smoking cessation weight loss and increasing physical activity Despite the promise of deposit contracts few earlier studies targeted problem drinking since doing so required burdensome frequent monitoring - now overcome by remote alcohol monitoring Earlier work relied on self- and collateral reports breath alcohol concentrations during clinic visits or an indirect non-specific marker of alcohol use Despite these difficulties earlier studies of deposit contracts were encouraging with notable increases in therapy participation retention and abstinence duration compared to previous reports Collectively these studies show the potential of deposit contracts to reduce problem drinking but provide only limited evidence of its effectiveness Still these studies and our recent success using contingency management with remote alcohol monitoring provide a compelling rationale for examining whether a deposit contract program might provide a feasible effective and accessible way of helping people reduce drinking Though there is limited systematic research on deposit contracts deposit contract programs for various problems are widely available and have proven quite attractive For example a deposit contract weight loss website has over 887000 users with 62M in incentives paid However it is unclear if deposit contracts would be acceptable and therefore feasible to individuals interested in reducing their problem drinking Therefore we feel that the proposed deposit contract intervention utilizing remote alcohol monitoring could be a widely available and acceptable intervention for problem drinking for three reasons 1 because of the effectiveness and convenience of our contingency management intervention using remote alcohol monitoring 2 because of the widespread success of other deposit contract programs like DietBetã and 3 because the potentially increased attractiveness and effectiveness of an intervention that can return an amount greater than the deposit The adoption of a deposit contract intervention plus remote alcohol monitoring will only be accelerated by the FitBit-style alcohol monitoring devices being developed by many companies we are currently independently evaluating one such device However making deposit contracts widely available will need evidence of their effectiveness which requires large randomized controlled trials The purpose of this R21 application is to develop this evidence by demonstrating that deposit contracts with remote alcohol monitoring are feasible and provide evidence of effectiveness needed to design and justify future studies
Study Oversight
Has Oversight DMC:
None
Is a FDA Regulated Drug?:
False
Is a FDA Regulated Device?:
False
Is an Unapproved Device?:
None
Is a PPSD?:
None
Is a US Export?:
None
Is an FDA AA801 Violation?:
None