HealthCall:Brief Intervention to Reduce Non-injecting Drug Use in HIV Primary Care Clinics

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:

NCT01312181

First Posted: March 10, 2011

Last Update Posted: November 16, 2015

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Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Efrat Aharonovich, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.

Purpose

Among HIV-infected individuals, non-injection drug use (NIDU) is associated with poor HIV medication adherence, greater HIV/AIDS risk behaviors, and increasing non-AIDS mortality. Thus reducing NIDU among HIV infected individuals is critical to their survival and to limiting the spread of HIV. We propose to study the efficacy of a technologically enhanced brief intervention (HealthCall) to reduce NIDU in HIV primary care patients that demands little from busy medical staff and is well accepted by patients. In a 3-arm randomized clinical trial will test the efficacy of (a) Motivational Interviewing (MI)+HealthCall; (b) MI-only; and (c) a control condition (advice + DVD HIV health education) in reducing NIDU.

Condition	Intervention	Phase
Mental and Behavioral Disorders Due to Multiple Drug Use and Use of Other Psychoactive Substances: Harmful Use	Behavioral: HealthCall and Motivational Interviewing Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing (MI) Behavioral: HIV/AIDS health education	Phase 1 Phase 2


Study Type:	Interventional
Study Design:	Allocation: Randomized Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment Masking: None (Open Label) Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title:	HealthCall: Brief Intervention to Reduce Drug Use in HIV Primary Care

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MedlinePlus related topics: HIV/AIDS

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Further study details as provided by Efrat Aharonovich, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.:

Primary Outcome Measures:

The primary outcome variable is drug use, assessed at baseline and repeatedly during follow-up so that change can be analyzed. [ Time Frame: Assessed at baseline, 30 and 60 days, 3,6 and 12 months ]


Estimated Enrollment:	390
Study Start Date:	June 2011
Estimated Study Completion Date:	December 2015
Primary Completion Date:	August 2015 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)

Arms	Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: HealthCall +Motivational Interviewing Patients access HealthCall by calling a toll-free number and putting a four-digit Personal Identification Number (PIN). The HealthCall system will then ask a short script of pre-recorded questions in English or Spanish, on substance use and other variables (e.g., medication adherence, unprotected sex, feeling of physical well-being, stress, etc).	Behavioral: HealthCall and Motivational Interviewing A basic behavioral intervention used in the 3 arms including the Motivational Interview (MI), the two components of HealthCall (IVR, personalized feedback) and the advice+DVD educational control arm.
Active Comparator: Motivational Interviewing (MI) The MI session focuses on reduce ambivalence and increase motivation to reduce non-injection drug use (NIDU), gain a commitment to change, if possible, and ultimately to reduce or eliminate NIDU. The intervention includes: a) identifying pros and cons of using and stopping; b) exploring ambivalence about stopping NIDU; c) eliciting change talk	Behavioral: Motivational Interviewing (MI) A basic behavioral intervention used in the 3 arms including the Motivational Interview (MI), the two components of HealthCall (IVR, personalized feedback) and the advice+DVD educational control arm.
Placebo Comparator: HIV/AIDS health education - DVD control HIV/AIDS health education - DVD control. The purpose of this condition is to control for clinical attention associated with Motivational Interviewing (MI)participation, and to provide an analogue of standard care, i.e. brief advice but no other intervention.	Behavioral: HIV/AIDS health education A basic behavioral intervention used in the 3 arms including the Motivational Interview (MI), the two components of HealthCall (IVR, personalized feedback) and the advice+DVD educational control arm.

Eligibility

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Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
Sexes Eligible for Study:	All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

All research volunteers will be 18 and older and HIV positive. We will include participants whose primary drug is non-injection use of cocaine, opioids including heroin, or methamphetamines and current use in the past 30 days > 4 days. Participants will need to complete a medically supervised detoxification if such detoxification is required.

Exclusion Criteria:

Excluded are research volunteers for whom participation would not be clinically appropriate, who clearly could not participate. Psychotic, suicidal or homicidal patients require clinical management that is too intensive for this study, and we have no evidence that MI+HealthCall would be effective among injection drug users. Leaving New York precludes follow-up. Gross psychomotor/cognitive impairments that may hinder patients' HealthCall use. Hearing and severe vision impairments that preclude telephone use precludes randomization to MI+HealthCall.

Contacts and Locations

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Locations


United States, New York
Mt Sinai Spencer Cox Center for Health
New York, New York, United States, 10019
Institute for Advanced Medicine, Mt. Sinai services
New York, New York, United States, 10032

Sponsors and Collaborators

Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.

Investigators


Principal Investigator:	Efrat Aharonovich, PhD	The New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia Univeristy

More Information

Publications:

Aharonovich E, Greenstein E, O'Leary A, Johnston B, Seol SG, Hasin DS. HealthCall: technology-based extension of motivational interviewing to reduce non-injection drug use in HIV primary care patients - a pilot study. AIDS Care. 2012;24(12):1461-9. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2012.663882. Epub 2012 Mar 20.

Hasin DS, Aharonovich E, O'Leary A, Greenstein E, Pavlicova M, Arunajadai S, Waxman R, Wainberg M, Helzer J, Johnston B. Reducing heavy drinking in HIV primary care: a randomized trial of brief intervention, with and without technological enhancement. Addiction. 2013 Jul;108(7):1230-40. doi: 10.1111/add.12127. Epub 2013 Apr 17.


Responsible Party:	Efrat Aharonovich, Resarch Scientist, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT01312181 History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers:	R01DA024606 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
First Submitted:	March 9, 2011
First Posted:	March 10, 2011
Last Update Posted:	November 16, 2015
Last Verified:	November 2015

Keywords provided by Efrat Aharonovich, Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.:


Technology based intervention HIV primary care clinic Brief behavioral intervention Drug abuse

Additional relevant MeSH terms:


Problem Behavior Behavioral Symptoms

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